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 for ...

The key to “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the word “autobiography.” Andrei Ujica’s extraordinarily powerful montage of newsreel footage is not a record of the Romanian dictator’s ...

In this handout photo provided by Artmark auction house, a 119-seat "Rombac One-Eleven", one of nine such passenger jets built in Romania which was used by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu for ...

FILE PHOTO: 1977 ARO car, belonging to late Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is pictured in Bucharest FILE PHOTO: 1977 ARO car, belonging to late Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu ...

Nicolae Ceausescu ruled with an iron fist for 25 years until he was overthrown and executed on Christmas Day in 1989. A quarter-century after his... 25 Years After Death, A Dictator Still Casts A ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution today after forensic scientists dug up their official ...

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, is to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...