The presidential plane of late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is going under the hammer. The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989 ...

An airplane used for official trips by Romania’s late communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu will be put up for auction on May 27 with a starting price of 25,000 euros ($30,000).

Mr Basescu said the 1945-1989 communist regime was "illegitimate and criminal". He proposed a national memorial day and museum for the victims of communism, along with a new history textbook. Mr ...

Turnout climbed to almost 65%, the highest level since the first round of the 2000 presidential election, when post-communist leader Ion Iliescu fended off another right-wing challenge.

Romania’s new leader after Mr. Ceausescu’s capture and execution was Ion Iliescu, a Communist apparatchik who served two terms as Romania’s first post-Communist president.

Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu loved Italian risotto, but he probably would have hated to see Romania's rice farms taken over by Italian and other Western companies. Monday, June 23, 2025 ...

In Romania, while postwar communist leaders, particularly Nicolae Ceausescu, paid lip service to the fight against fascism, they also embraced an ethnic nationalism with often fascist overtones.

BUCHAREST (AP) — An airplane used for official trips by late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu will be put up for auction on May 27 with a starting price of 25,000 euros ($30,000), an ...

The presidential plane of late Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is going under the hammer. The Rombac 1-11, which was used for the dictator’s official flights between 1986 and 1989 ...