Christmas lights and decorations adorn the Alexandru Ioan Cuza fountain in front of Romania's Palace of the Parliament in downtown Bucharest. (file photo) Photo: Shutterstock ...

Consider this heartwarming Christmas story, just in time for the season. It was back in the bad old days, the 1980s, and Nicolae Ceausescu was dictator of Romania. He had been in that exalted post ...

As a child living in communist Romania in the midst of food shortages, persecution and upheaval, I had a hard time being thankful. The shoebox gift changed my life. It gave me hope.

It was on Christmas Day 30 years ago that Romania's tyrannical communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was executed by firing squad after a summary trial. A bloody battle played out in Romania in ...

Craiova, Romania - Christmas Hut. Primaria Craiova. In third place is Craiova, the first year that a Romanian Christmas market has joined the contenders for best Christmas markets in Europe.

On Christmas Day, 1989--20 years ago, the dictator of communist Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were taken to a kind of revolutionary tribunal, tried for two hours, put ...

MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU, Romania — The Romanian Land Forces (RoLF) hosted a gift giving Christmas event on Dec. 19, where they delivered gifts to Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault ...

Staff at one of Romania's largest vaccination centers in Bucharest have built a very unconventional tree. The vaccine tree, which stands over 10 feet tall, is made up of empty COVID-19 vaccine vials.

An auction of 22 Christmas trees created by leading Romanian designers raised 250,000 euros ($272,230) for a children’s charity in Romania, a country with one of the highest rates of child ...