The year 1989 meant the end of the communist regime in the Central and Eastern European countries. Romania was the only ex-communist country in the case of which the switch to democracy was violent, ...

On the 35th anniversary of the Revolution, the city of Timisoara commemorates on Tuesday the first 66 demonstrators in the city who died for freedom during the events of December 1989. A memorial ...

Thirty-five years ago, the citizens of the Romanian city of Timisoara rose up against communism and the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. On December 16, 1989, the bloodiest revolution of the Eastern Bloc ...

A collection of images donated anonymously to a Hungarian photo archive captures turmoil in Timisoara, the city where Romania's revolution broke out 35 years ago. The above photo, of a Romanian ...

As the white paper was torn away from the yellow wall, a wave of applause passed through the crowd. Beneath it, four words were sprayed in Hungarian in red paint: "Eljen Laszlo Tokes - Szabadsag" ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Twenty-five years ago the people rose up against Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, executed him and set the country on a path to democracy. One of the near victims of the revolt that ...

Our reporters returned to the city of Timisoara, the cradle of the Romanian revolution of December 1989 that overthrew the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Although Romania remains the poorest ...

Naked bodies lined up in the mud in a cemetery in Romania: the city of Timisoara, crucible of the anti-communist revolution in 1989, is also remembered for one of the most infamous examples of ...

Twenty years ago Romania underwent a week-long revolution, leading to the overthrow of leader Nicolae Ceausescu. The BBC's Nick Thorpe speaks to one of the key figures during those times - General ...