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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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