Bucharest, Romania Moments before Romania’s exit poll was announced, George Simion, the nationalist firebrand and presidential hopeful, was tapping his feet to YMCA on the steps of parliament.

including a trip to Buckingham Palace to stay with the Queen.' The Queen was supposedly unhappy about the visit, calling Mrs Ceasescu a 'viper' in a letter to the British embassy in Bucharest.

In Romania, demonstrations ended in violence and saw the fall of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu ... palace and angry crowds stormed it. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Romanian ...

Corinthia Bucharest’s pièce de résistance is the ... Then, during Romania's communist period, it served as the Palace of Culture. It took nearly a year just to remove the dust from the ...

His opponent on Sunday is 55-year-old Nicusor Dan, the independent mayor of Bucharest. Dan is a mathematician ... Stalinist system of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Some members of this ...

NICOLAE CEAUSESCU, Romania’s last communist dictator ... The runner-up was Nicusor Dan, the corruption-fighting mayor of Bucharest, the capital, who got 21%. The two will face off in a second ...

BUCHAREST – A Romanian ultra-nationalist ... has pursued for the 3½ decades since the collapse of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime, or turns to anti-establishment forces that have ...

Far-right candidate George Simion, who took the lead in the first round of the Romanian parliamentary ... Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu at the National Conference of the Communist Party ...

He says there is a “fear” in Bucharest that he hasn’t sensed in decades, since the fall of the bloody communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. After Georgescu was banned from running ...