Hours after Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in August 1968, Romania's communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, denounced the invasion to a crowd of thousands in central Bucharest. The ...

Romania reopened a Soviet-era rail link connecting its Danube River port of Galati to Ukraine a month earlier than expected to help boost vital grain exports from its neighbor.

Vladimir Putin's army has carried out a large-scale reenactment of a Soviet invasion that led to Romania's post-war ...

1941-1944 - Romania fights on German side against Soviet Union, then switches sides as Soviet forces close in. 1945 - Soviet-backed government installed.

Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused maternal mortality rates to jump and left people wary ... something that happened across the Soviet satellite countries after Stalin’s death ...

On Aug. 22, 1944, the Soviet Union secured an armistice with Romania for the Allies. Level the playing field. In 1937, Romania’s king, Carol II, dissolved what became a fascist government not ...

Romanian candidate Calin Georgescu is being questioned by prosecutors after Vice President JD Vance criticized a "Soviet-era" shift in European democracies.

Occupied territory. In 1940, Moldova passed from Romania to the USSR. Then in June 1941, when the Great Patriotic War broke out, Romania, an ally of Nazi Germany, occupied Moldova.

Hence, there was a distinct possibility that Moldova, rather than declaring independence from the USSR, would unite with a post-Soviet Romania instead. The Soviets had no interest in this eventuality.