On the day of Ion Iliescu's funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania's first elected president after the fall of communism ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...

Romania's first post-communist president, Ion Iliescu, was buried on Thursday amid stark divisions over his legacy. He died ...

On the day of Ion Iliescu’s funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania’s first elected president after the fall of communism was laid bare. While many dignitaries paid their respects to the late ...

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae ...

Iliescu went from a rising member of Romania's Communist Party to a leader of the bloody December 1989 revolution - which ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, ...

Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu -- one of the most influential but also controversial political leaders of ...

As president, he steered the country through its transition to democracy. He was later accused of crimes against humanity.

Twice re-elected, in 1992 and 2000, Iliescu was a central figure in the country's transition years and its shift westward during his last tenure, which paved the way to membership of NATO and the EU.