The war in Ukraine has escalated with the United States giving the green light for NATO fighter jets to be sent to reinforce ...

In the spring of 1944, as the Soviet Red Army pushed westward, the Germans found themselves fighting a desperate retreat, ...

Romania’s abortion ban between 1966 and 1989 caused maternal mortality rates to jump and left people wary of one another.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, as the Soviet Union imposed ideological control across Eastern Europe, the CIA ...

The Transfagarasan road was officially opened 50 years ago after a mammoth construction project cut through some of Europe’s most inhospitable mountains.

1941-1944 - Romania fights on German side against Soviet Union, then switches sides as Soviet forces close in. 1945 - Soviet-backed government installed.

A Soviet spacecraft is set to return from Earth's orbit after a failed mission to Venus over 50 years ago. See when it could crash to Earth.

Romanian candidate Calin Georgescu is being questioned by prosecutors after Vice President JD Vance criticized a "Soviet-era" shift in European democracies.

Romania and Hungary each allied with Nazi Germany hoping to gain territory “lost” to the other and also to Soviet Ukraine.

Although Moldova declared independence rather than joining Romania, Soviet Transnistria declared independence too; although it remains formally a part of Moldova, it is a de facto Russian proxy.

Romania, a country on Europe’s eastern fringe, is perhaps a surprising focus of attention for a new US administration whose foreign policy priorities include ending the war in Ukraine, reshaping ...