The December 1989 Revolution is emerging as the main theme of Timisoara 2021- European Capital of Culture (ECC), especially for foreign tourists, while the Timisoara 2021 ECC Association also wants ...

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, ...

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 ...

TIMISOARA, Romania (AP) — Adrian Kali remembers a two-year-old girl being shot dead in front of him twenty-five years ago to this day during Europe’s last anti-communist revolution of 1989. The ...

TIMISOARA (ROMANIA) - Romania kicked off a series of commemorations to mark 30 years since the overthrow of the tyrannical regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, staging a "freedom march" in the town of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ioan Banciu lights a candle next to the empty tomb of his wife, one of the victims of the Romanian revolution AFP / Daniel MIHAILESCU Naked bodies lined up in the mud in a cemetery in Romania: the ...