Nicolae Ceaușescu

Thousands of people toured the former building of the Central Committee (CC) of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) on Sunday, the current headquarters of the Interior Ministry (MAI), with people having access to spaces that were never open to the public - such as the arrest of the former Securitate, located in the basement of the CC, or the balcony from the first floor, where Nicolae Ceausescu

The central events took place in the capital, Bucharest, where revolutionaries, authorities and ordinary citizens remembered the dead on Sunday, with an honour guard paying their respects to the victims of the uprising at the monument dedicated to them in Revolution Square.

The "Romanian Revolution of December 1989 - 30 years," including images of AGERPRES' Photo Archive, was opened at the Council House of Brasov on Friday, as part of an event organised by the County Museum of History. The event of the museum also included the opening of the exhibition "A few moments of freedom," presenting Florin Man's photographs collection.

Until we've had stability and the rule of law nothing can happen or will not happen, and the United States of America want to have Romania as an independent and strong economic partner, new Ambassador of the United States of America in Bucharest Adrian Zuckerman told AGERPRES in an interview.

It was mid-December 1989 when hundreds of thousands of people in Timisoara, Bucharest and other Romanian towns and cities defied Nicolae Ceausescu's reign of fear and took to the streets to free themselves from over four decades of Communist dictatorship. 

The year 1989 meant the end of the communist regime in the Central and Eastern European countries. Romania was the only ex-communist country in the case of which the switch to democracy was violent, involving protests and street fights, and the only country where the leaders of the former regime got executed.

President Klaus Iohannis stated on Monday that the state has "delayed for far too long" the discovery of the truth about the Revolution in 1989 and emphasized that justice must hold those guilty accountable. "After 1990, there were different initiatives through which the memory of those who gave their lives in December 1989 was honored.

The only lyric opera dedicated to the 1989 Revolution in Timisoara, dubbed "Romanian Revolution 1989", written by the US composer Aaron Garber will have its first night on Sunday at the National Theatre of western City of Timisoara, and will benefit from the interpretation of the Western University (UVT)'s Music and Theatre Faculty (FMT) students.

That's why museum owner Adrian Nastasa thought something was odd when he noticed that one visitor had been sitting for more than an hour in one section of the museum.

Queen-Mother Elena's remains are going to be brought home, to Romania, so to be re-buried at Curtea de Arges, alongside her son King Mihai I, the Royal Family announces, scheduling a mourning period of three days on 18, 19 and 20 October.