Decades after the bloody overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, tourism based on landmarks from Romania's communist era has become a thriving industry. BUCHAREST -- Christian Scutariu laughs when asked why ...
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, was transferred on Wednesday from the hospital ...
In a freezing university classroom in Iasi, northeastern Romania, in 1988, American literature professor David Hadaller paused as his students scribbled notes with their hands gloved against the cold.
Ion Iliescu, the former Romanian president who steered his country through its transition from communism to democracy and was dogged by controversy over his own political past, has died. He was 95.
In 1960s Communist Romania, violinist Ion Petre Stoican was struggling to establish himself in the Bucharest wedding market, then dominated by the influential 'Lautari' musicians of the area.
President urges Romanians to remember ‘courage of those who turned suffering into dignity’ under Communist rule. Romania on Monday marked the Day of Anti-Communist Political Prisoners, an annual ...
BERLIN — He had wild hair and wore jeans. He was American — and Jewish. He had a camera. That was enough to trigger surveillance by the notorious secret police of communist Romania, the Securitate.