The rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Romania, alongside his wife Elena, and the policies that led the country to extreme poverty ...

A former Romanian prosecutor claims that the sound technology allegedly used in Belgrade last Saturday is a similar but more advanced version of the one used by the communist regime in the 1989 ...

We often discuss how strongmen rise to power. In "How Tyrants Fall", Marcel Dirsus looks at the other side of the story ...

Pictured here: Nicolae Ceausescu addressing a rally a month ... He was subsequently captured and executed three days later, on Christmas Day, in Targoviste. About 1,200 people died and around ...

Omnipotent leaders may seem untouchable, but systems crack. From mass mobilisation to quiet non-compliance, discover how ...

The Romanian party members, who were pampered as guests of honor, were to segue into capitalism only a few months later, after dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was deposed and executed.

Lawyers for a death row inmate in Florida are trying to stay his execution next week, arguing that it would be unconstitutional given the prisoner’s morbid obesity, which could complicate his ...