The Latest Breaking News from Nicolae Ceaușescu

In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu introduced extreme policies to increase the country’s birth rate. This led to the widespread abandonment of children, who ended up in orphanages in appalling conditions where they received no care, attention or love. Though tragic, this infamous “natural experiment” has allowed us to learn…

On 16 December 1989, an attempt by Nicolae Ceaușescu’s security forces to evict a cleric in the town of Timișoara sparked eastern Europe’s bloodiest anti-communist revolution

“On the night of 27–28 November 1989,” Stejărel Olaru writes, “seven people hurriedly but warily made their way towards the frontier between Romania and Hungary.”

Stunning churches dating back to the 16th century can be visited in Bucharest, Romania to this day after engineers hid them from Nicolae Ceaușescu beneath Soviet style apartment blocks

Director general of the Countryside Commission who oversaw the creation of the National Forest

RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev, a leader who spoke, as he described it, “the language of practical politics” and ended the Cold War — albeit, not in Cuba or Miami.

The village inside a valley was used as a dumping ground for a nearby copper mine discovered in 1978 on the orders of the notorious communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu

In one of Europe’s last remaining wildernesses, Romania’s brown bears and the local population share an uneasy coexistence

Buoyed by dollars and evangelical zeal, a growing number of ‘pregnancy crisis centres’ threaten to return the country to the deadly days of Ceaușescu’s ban