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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Priests perform a brief religious service next to the coffin of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected ...

Honor guard soldiers carry a picture of the late Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of ...