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

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

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

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

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

Ion Iliescu, the former Romanian president who steered his country through its transition from communism to democracy and was dogged by controversy over his own political past, has died. He was ...

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

Romanian former president Ion Iliescu, who presided over the eastern European country's chaotic transition from communism to democracy, died on Tuesday aged 95, the government said.

Romania's former president Ion Iliescu, who died aged 95 on Tuesday, was long hailed as Romania's "little father" but faced charges over his role in the eastern European nation's chaotic transition ...