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 ...

Flickr/Cold Shutterhand. Some rights reserved. “Protests in Piata Universitatii,” my mother wrote to me in a text on the evening of 21 December. “We’re ...

Former president Ion Iliescu and other former top officials are to stand trial for commandeering the 1989 uprising and for fomenting an atmosphere of chaos and confusion to take power that resulted in ...

As 1989 dawned, history decided to play one of its occasional tricks, one that would have delighted Karl Marx. As we all prepared for extensive celebrations of the bi-centennial of the French ...

Ion Iliescu and other former Romanian leaders again face trial for alleged crimes committed during the 1989 overthrow of Ceausescu's dictatorship. Former President Ion Iliescu gestures at a ...

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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 ...