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.

The flags of Romania and Chad became identical in 1989 when the Ceaucescu dictatorship fell and Romania dropped the communist insignia that once decorated the centre of its standard.

Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu, 80, once jailed as a Romanian communist-era "enemy of the state," died Friday at his home in Bucharest two weeks after he was released from a hospital where he was ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Gabriel Tepelea, an anti-communist dissident who spent six years in gulags and later played a key role in Romanian political life when communism collapsed, has died, a ...

All this week, we hear firsthand accounts of the end of communism in Eastern Europe 20 years ago in our series Voices from a Revolution. Today, we hear a voice from Romania — Mircea Dinescu ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Doina Cornea, a Romanian anti-communist dissident who was beaten and arrested after criticizing the destruction of Romanian villages and churches during the regime of ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Alexandru Visinescu, a Romanian communist-era prison guard serving a 20-year sentence for crimes against humanity, died Monday in prison at 93, Romanian authorities said.