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 ...

Initially hailed as the man who would lead Romania into a new democratic era, Iliescu's legacy soon became more complicated.

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

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

Iliescu, who held de facto military authority during the anticommunist revolt, assumed power after Communist dictator Nicolae ...

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

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

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

Iliescu has a complex legacy. He will be remembered as the country’s first democratic leader, and for his brutal crackdown ...

Romania had struggled, mostly unsuccessfully, to free its economy from the stagnant policies of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, whose regime collapsed in a bloody 1989 revolution. Iliescu, a ...

President-elect Iliescu ran on a message of protection for Romania's poorest, but tempered that message once victory became apparent with a different pledge - to continue painful economic reforms.