BUCHAREST, Romania – BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The mystery of where former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were buried moved closer to resolution Wednesday after forensic ...

Forensic scientists have exhumed what are believed to be the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena at the request of their children. The news of the exhumation, the latest ...

Known to be the leader of one of the most brutal and repressive Communist regimes, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was far from being an actual socialist when it came to his cars. A Romanian ...

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 ...

Herta Müller’s account of growing up in Ceaușescu’s Romania documents how the state insinuated oppression into every corner ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — The last time Alexandru Socol saw Nicolae Ceausescu was in 1989, when the communist dictator visited Mr. Socol’s factory to inspect the components it produced for hydroelectric ...

Romania built nine Rombac 1-11 airliners, and this one was used as the official presidential plane of Nicolae Ceausescu. It goes up on auction Thursday. You only have a few days to act, but if you’ve ...

It’s impossible that “The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu” is the monument that the former Romanian dictator would have produced in his own honor. Among other things, it has an unhappy ending, at ...

No one knows more about leaders’ bodies than their personal physicians. Notoriously, Joseph Stalin mistrusted the Kremlin doctors, whom he suspected of trying to poison him and the other Soviet ...

This fresh-from-the-laboratory documentary on former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is informative and, especially in its last hour, surprisingly dramatic. By Peter Brunette, The Associated Press ...