Ion Iliescu, Romania’s First Post-Communist Leader, Dies at 95

Ion Iliescu, the former Romanian president who steered his country through its transition from communism to democracy and was dogged by controversy over his own political past, has died. He was 95.

Iliescu died on Tuesday in a hospital in Bucharest, according to a press release from the government. Romanian media had reported he was in the hospital undergoing treatment for lung cancer.