A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive captures turmoil in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago. The above photo, of a Romanian ...

Protesters confront security forces in Bucharest during Romania’s 1989 revolution. (Photo: National Museum of Romanian History / Project Communism in Romania Collection) (CN) — Thirty-six years after ...

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 ...

Revolution Square in Bucharest, Romania, is one of the country’s most historic landmarks and a powerful symbol of freedom.

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu was officially charged with crimes against humanity by the country's top prosecutor on Monday as it finalised an inquiry into the chaotic ...

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 ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes against humanity for his role in the bloody revolution ...

On 21 and 22 December 1989, Romania's revolution reached its tipping point. The dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled. Millions rejoiced. But, as Petru Clej reports, there are still many questions ...