An exhibition in Romania’s capital highlights the harsh reality of interrogations by the country's communist-era secret ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody ...

In December 1989, Romania was shaken by 10 days of protests that led to the fall of Europe’s last communist dictatorship. The protests started in Timisoara in the west of the country and spread to ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Twenty-five years ago the people rose up against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed him and set the country on a path to democracy. One of the near victims of the revolt that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 200 people gathered in Bucharest’s University Square on Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Romanian ...

Thirty-five years ago, the citizens of the Romanian city of Timisoara rose up against communism and the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. On December 16, 1989, the bloodiest revolution of the Eastern Bloc ...

Military prosecutors investigating for a fourth time the 1989 uprising that led to the fall of Communism said they had proof that an orchestrated movement led by army officers and some civilians ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video from the Communist era secret police surveillance archives, seen through a pinhole, shows Anton Uncu sitting on a metal ...

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