Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had nothing on Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena. After a popular uprising in 1986 forced the Marcoses to flee from the Philippines into exile in Hawaii, tales of th… ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Twenty-three years after communism collapsed, the Palace of the Parliament, a gargantuan Stalinist symbol and the most concrete legacy of ex-dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, has ...

Still haunted by the legend of a vampire count and the legacy of a communist dictator, Romania is complex — with an epic history, a multifaceted ethnic mix, and an unusually rich cultural heritage.

BUCHAREST, Romania – The official residence of the Ceausescu family has been opened to the Romanian public 26 years since the hated pair were overthrown. Three hundred people were allowed to ...

Today, Ceausescu feels like ancient history, and Romania is proud to be part of the European Union. Joining local families on a Saturday morning in a Bucharest park, you can’t help but feel ...

Bucharest buzzes with an energetic, ... Ceausescu’s giant palace in the south of the capital, the world’s second-largest administrative building after the Pentagon, is a must-see.

BUCHAREST, Romania — No parking spaces. Crippling traffic jams. Sky-high rents. Is this London, Rome or Athens? No, it’s Bucharest, where communism and capitalism have conspired to make it ...

Once its exotic greenhouse housed peacocks and parrots for the amusement of the Communist rulers of Romania, but now the private residence of the Ceausescus in the Romanian capital Bucharest has been ...

In the bad old days of Romanian megalomania – that is, until about a week ago – Nicolae Ceausescu used to pop over to his new palace once or twice a week to see how the workmen were getting on.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Bucharest was once known as “Little Paris of the East.” But English, not French, is the preferred foreign language in Romania’s capital city, and 9… ...