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 ...

The pic has no dramatic thrust, and a highly charged yet unenthusiastic home reception is the most that can be expected from theatrical. Journalist Grigore Cartianu adapted his own investigative books ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this handout photo provided by Artmark auction house, a 119-seat "Rombac One-Eleven", one of nine such passenger jets built in ...

Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual socialist when it came to his cars. A Romanian ...

Romania built nine Rombac 1-11 airliners, and this one was used as the official presidential plane of Nicolae Ceausescu. It goes up on auction Thursday. You only have a few days to act, but if you’ve ...

This fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is informative and, especially in its last hour, surprisingly dramatic. By Peter Brunette, The Associated Press ...

BUCHAREST, Romania – It is furniture fit for a dictator and now it's up for sale. Twenty-five years ago, the Communist Party politburo ordered a bespoke set of rosewood, walnut and cherry wood ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — The last time Alexandru Socol saw Nicolae Ceausescu was in 1989, when the communist dictator visited Mr. Socol’s factory to inspect the components it produced for hydroelectric ...

It’s impossible that “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the monument that the former Romanian dictator would have produced in his own honor. Among other things, it has an unhappy ending, at ...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A devoted aide of ex-Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu who was sent to quell protests that sparked the 1989 revolution has died. He was 87. Emil Bobu died from a heart attack ...