As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...

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BUCHAREST, Romania -- He was the poster child of East Europe's bloodiest revolution against communism 20 years ago, a young academic who captured the yearning of Romania's masses for a new beginning ...

Thousands of people marched in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Sunday to remember those who lost their lives in the revolution 30 years ago that ended the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu ...

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 ...

In the shadow of the Cold War, Nicolae Ceaușescu rose to power in Romania. His brand of national-communism would set the country on a dark and isolated path ...

CANNES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu," a fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on the former Romanian dictator, is informative and -- especially in its last hour -- ...

A young schoolteacher named Adina arrives at her apartment in an unnamed Romanian town. She immediately notices an odd detail: A fox-fur hearth rug she has owned for years has had its tail cut off.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A devoted aide of ex-Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu who was sent to quell protests that sparked the 1989 revolution has died. He was 87. Emil Bobu died from a heart attack ...

“After all, a dictator is simply an artist who is able to fully put into practice his egotism. It is a mere question of aesthetic level, whether he turns out to be Baudelaire or Bolintineanu, Louis ...