The pic has no dramatic thrust, and a highly charged yet unenthusiastic home reception is the most that can be expected from theatrical. Journalist Grigore Cartianu adapted his own investigative books ...

Thirty years ago, Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad after a hasty one-hour show trial. The pair had fled from power in a helicopter after a popular ...

Twenty-five years ago, the Communist leaders of Eastern Europe were falling like dominoes. And on Christmas Day in 1989, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed by ...

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 ...

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

To evoke culture shock, it would be hard to find a pithier image than a vampiric Elena Ceausescu singing the John Denver hit "Take Me Home, Country Roads." In Romanian. Absurdism earns its keep in ...

The smoke cleared and there lay Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu, dead and done. For most of us who caught the images on television, that closed the book on the Romanian revolution with the neat finality ...

There might have been no communist regime, outside of the Soviet Union, that was more savage than that of Nicolae Ceausescu. He led Romania from 1965 until 1989, creating a personality cult around his ...