The government set up to run revolution-torn Romania said Monday it had executed ousted President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife after secretly trying the two for committing ”particularly grave ...

Amid the international censure of Nicolae Ceausescu ... of Czechoslovakia in 1968, President Lyndon Johnson warned Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev against invading Romania too.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian auction house on Wednesday sold memorabilia belonging to former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to mark what would have been his 100th birthday.

Romania's centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the country's presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a hard-right, nationalist rival who had pledged to put Romania on a path ...

Ujica and editor Dana Bunescu cut to the 1965 death of Romanian president Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, when Ceausescu assumed power. What follows are sweeping sections of montage that present Romania ...

Although the Romanian president does not have many powers ... for Ukraine and a more Russia-friendly course. Memories of the Ceausescu era The few times he has appeared in public in recent ...

People struggling for justice for family members killed in the 1989 uprising say that servants of the Ceausescu regime have blocked any reckoning with the past. By Andrew Higgins Andrew Higgins ...

Now, more than 15 years on, she is still there, as president of the charity O Noua Viata (A ... actively encouraged to have as many children as possible to power Romania's economy. "Ceausescu wanted ...

Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was overthrown in 1989. The president of Romania has considerable powers, including being in charge of the defence council that decides on military aid.