The Romanian Revolution began in earnest when Ceausescu made the mistake of appearing on live TV to speak about the violent crackdown on political protesters in Timisoara, allowing the whole country ...

Protesters confront security forces in Bucharest during Romania’s 1989 revolution. (Photo: National Museum of Romanian History / Project Communism in Romania Collection) (CN) — Thirty-six years after ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

In the run-up to the Iraq war, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz liked to draw analogies to the overthrow of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania. He acknowledged that the United States ...

If revolution, in its purest form, involves the unplanned and unguided explosion of a population that has had it not just with a leader but also with an entire system, then the events of December 1989 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – Romanian prosecutors have formally indicted former President Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity over his role in deaths that occurred during Romania's anti-communist ...

We recently encouraged readers to submit their photos from the revolutionary days of 1989, in Romania and elsewhere. We thought the contributions of one of our readers, Darnelle Mason, merited special ...

Paris. Was the December 1989 Romanian upheaval in that ended the dictatorship of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu a revolution, or a coup d’etat? It was both , says a principal figure in those events, ...

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BUCHAREST, Romania — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution ...