Nearly half of all Romanians polled claim to have a positive view of Ceausescu, above. Flickr/Ion Chibzii. Some rights reserved. According to a recent poll, many ...

The Romanian president has expressed deep concern over widespread nostalgia for communism in the country as a newly conducted study shows that the majority of the nation believes the communist regime ...

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

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 ...

Romania’s Naval Forces have received their first corvette since the fall of communism, with president Nicuşor Dan and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attending the flag-raising ceremony of the ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — 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 where he ...

An 88-year-old Romanian communist-era labour camp commander was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed over half a century ago. Ioan Ficior, head of the ...

The former commander of one of the most notorious prisons under Romania’s ousted Communist regime was given a 20-year jail term Friday. Alexandru Visinescu, 89, had been on trial since September on ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A former Romanian prison commander appeared in court Wednesday to face charges of torture and causing the deaths of 12 political prisoners in the nation’s first trial of the ...

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.