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 ...

A series of riveting historical images from a documentary that captures the final, violent end of totalitarian communism in Eastern Europe, went on display in SUNY Cortland’s Old Main Colloquium ...

BRASOV, Romania -- On Romanian Heroes' Day, Ileana Negru, a 66-year-old woman whose son Florin was just 12 when he was killed in the 1989 revolution, went to a mountain road outside the central city ...

The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 was the first step made by the Romanians and Romania in what concerns their return to Europe, European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean told the ...

Failed anti-Ceausescu conspirator Cassian Maria found reality hard to accept after he was unexpectedly released from jail in December 1989 – only to find the Romanian revolution had taken place ...

In a freezing university classroom in Iasi, northeastern Romania, in 1988, American literature professor David Hadaller paused as his students scribbled notes with their hands gloved against the cold.

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 ...