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As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of ...
Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first freely elected president after Communism, helped bring down the country’s dictatorship and led ...
Ion Iliescu, Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, who later faced charges of crimes ...
On the day of Ion Iliescu's funeral, the polarizing legacy of Romania's first elected president after the fall of communism ...
The casket carrying the body of Ion Iliescu, Romania’s first elected president after the bloody fall of communism in 1989, ...
Ion Iliescu, Romania's first leader after the collapse of the Ceausescu dictatorship, died at 95. He saw himself as a savior, ...
Romania's former President Ion Iliescu, who led its transition from communism and set it on the path to European Union and ...
Iliescu was Romania's first freely elected president after the fall of communism in 1989, and later faced charges of crimes ...
Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu -- one of the most influential but also controversial political leaders of ...
As president, he steered the country through its transition to democracy. He was later accused of crimes against humanity.
But Iliescu was also the one who got all political parties to agree to support Romania's path to EU and NATO membership. It joined the NATO alliance in 2004 and the EU in 2007.