Nicolae Ceaușescu

Can't get time to leave your home and enjoy a strange hybrid of Versailles and North Korean-style arhitecture?

Don't worry, starting from this month, virtual visitors can wander around the Palace of the Romanian Parliament while seated in their armchairs, viewing the huge halls, crystal chandeliers, wooden doors, expensive paintings and ornate sculptures.

As she has done for the past two decades on December 21, a 47-year-old woman walked alone through downtown Bucharest on Monday, starting in Piata Universitatii, the capital's main square, where she laid a few flowers by a large cross.

Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a politician known for his strongly nationalist and xenophobic views, died of cardiovascular disease in Bucharest on Monday. He was 65.

Tudor began his public career as a writer and poet and penned verses flattering Romania's former communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

For the third consecutive day, dozens of Romanians who took part in the revolution that overthrew the Communist regime protested on Wednesday against a change in the law affecting their privileges.

The so-called "revolutionaries" are those accredited with having taken an active part in the demonstrations that toppled former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989.

Romanians continue to trust their soldiers and churchmen more than their political leaders, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday. Parliament and other democratic institutions languish at the bottom of the credibility ratings.

Three golden artefacts from the 2nd-3rd centuries AD and the Chrysler limousine that was offered as a gift to Nicolae Ceausescu in 1974 by the Shah of Iran are the stars of Artmark's Christmas Auction that is to take place on December 9 at the Hilton Hotel in Bucharest.

The people of Bucharest will finally get to see the result of refurbishment work at the country's National Theater, which has cost 60 million euro.

The theatre has undergone a complete revamp, including four new airy halls, walkways, art galleries, cafetarias and a bookshop.

Turkey’s newly inaugurated presidential palace draws more criticism from the opposition, with references to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the 11th century assassin stronghold of Alamut Opposition parties have ramped up their objection to Turkey’s newly inaugurated presidential palace, set to cost more than half a billion Turkish Liras, likening the gargantuan complex to Romanian

Socialist Alternative Party (PAS) Chair Constantin Rotaru filed his presidential candidacy at the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) on Tuesday.

On the 555th anniversary of Bucharest City, film critic Irina Margareta Nistor wishes the city, which he calls 'the man of a thousand faces,' to be loving of its citizens and not to chase them away.'