Nicolae Ceausescu liked to hunt bears. With his retinue, he would retreat to a lodge in Transylvania and sally forth, locked and loaded. He was accustomed to good fortune, for his huntsmen took ...

Tomorrow, it will be 20 years since Dan Voinea helped send Nicolae Ceausescu before a Christmas Day firing squad. But the anniversary of the climax to Romania's revolution will not bring unalloyed joy ...

Twenty five years ago this week the people of Romania got a very welcome Christmas present. After a token trial, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad at a secret military ...

The Romanian city of Timisoara today marked 20 years since it sparked the revolution that toppled Eastern Europe’s most oppressive dictator. Within nine days of the 1989 protests, Communist leader ...

Teodor Maries had never seen anything like it: Romanian riot police were locking down central Bucharest, a speech by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had just been cut short by jeers and now a ...

BUCHAREST, RomaniaBUCHAREST, Romania — The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution Wednesday after forensic scientists dug ...

Wednesday marks 30 years since Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania’s authoritarian communist leader, was deposed and executed – an event that signalled a new beginning in the country following a bloody ...

30 years after the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in 1989, we get a reconstruction of one of the most violent events during the fall of the communist regimes. The investigation exposes the ...

As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power. By Dan Bilefsky and ...

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 ...