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 ...

The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania's first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, ...

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

Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...

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

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

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

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

Iliescu was Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes ...

Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led its transition to democracy and a market economy. A central figure in the ...

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, were executed on Dec. 25, 1989.