University Square, Bucharest

President Klaus Iohannis stated on Thursday that "University Square" represents a "testament that we must cherish and respect." "Today, 30 years since those bloody events, Romania is a rule of law, with a consolidated democracy, profoundly attached to the European and democratic values, and the civil society is categorically stronger and more consolidated.

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.

The military and civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defence participate over December 20 - 22 in wreath and garland laying military ceremonies at the monuments dedicated to the martyr heroes who died 25 years ago for the victory of the 1989 Revolution.