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A week in Tirana in which every institution was asked, one way or another, whose voice is whose. By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Sometime in the past week, and nobody outside a small circle knows exactly when, two lines quietly vanished from Gjergj Erebara’s Facebook profile. Journalist at BIRN Albania. Journalist at Reporter.al. They had …
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By Prof. Assoc. Dr. Bledar Kurti In modern democracies there exists a great paradox. Today we believe that politicians shape public opinion, when in truth it is increasingly the algorithms that shape both politicians and crowds. If the road to power once ran through parties, television stations and institutions, today it runs through a …
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The targets were individual businesses. The exposure was national. The July review-bombing campaign revealed how digital trust has become critical infrastructure for Albania’s tourism economy. By Bekim Besimi (Venice) When states or movements attack infrastructure, the images are familiar: a pipeline, a substation, a server farm. In the second week of July, at the …
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What a former foreign minister’s photograph in Beijing says, and what it carefully does not By Ardit Rada | Tirana Examiner There is a photograph from Beijing, posted on July 3, in which Ditmir Bushati is smiling. Beside him stands Yan Xuetong, honorary dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University and …
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By Adriatik Doçi (Tirana) From a hurricane that shook the government and the political class as a whole, the “Flamingo” protest, in its fifth week, has ended up as an ordinary parade, settling into the contours of the Lapaj-Qori protests and the revolution Sali Berisha proclaimed 13 years ago. So why did the so-called …
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by Keler Marku (Washington D.C) They accuse PM Edi Rama of selling 4 billion dollars of Albania’s flamingo infused land for a smile from someone whose office is not far away from where I am writing this article, here in DC. That accusation does not even pass a laugh test, so pointless to even bring any …
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The Progressive International flew into Tirana, marched for a week, flew home, and published a verdict. What it did not publish is evidence. A close reading of the dossier that convicted Edi Rama by layout. By Renada Bici and Ardit Rada Last week David Adler was in Tirana, marching with the flamingos. This week …
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The Joint Colleges rewrote Albania’s pretrial detention doctrine without touching a single sentence of the 2011 precedent. That is precisely why it will hold. By Renada Bici | Legal Desk, Tirana Examiner On the morning of October 16, 2025, police searched a house in Vinjoll, in the administrative unit of Milot, and found seven …
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In Albanian custom, the fortieth day is when the dead are commemorated. The flamingo revolution has just reached its own, and the flamingos have taken their holidays elsewhere. By Ylli Manjani, former Minister of Justice of Albania There are revolutions made for bread. There are revolutions made for freedom. And there are revolutions made …
