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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 …
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by Skënder Minxhozi (Tirana) At the World Cup in South Africa years ago, a background noise like the buzzing of bees accompanied the matches, following the entire game. These were the famous African vuvuzelas, simple instruments like whistles that produced an uninterrupted, monotonous sound. For many watching on television it was an acoustic nuisance, …
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A response to the open letter of eleven UK based Albanian associations By Ardit Rada (Tirana) Eleven Albanian associations in the United Kingdom, among them the student societies of Cambridge, LSE, UCL and Edinburgh, have addressed an open letter to Albania’s Government and Parliament. Lea Ypi shared it, which is why you have read …
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Serbia’s minister stood at Khamenei’s funeral because Tehran judged that he had earned the place Drizan Shala On the third of July, in the vast hall of Tehran’s Grand Mosalla, the coffin of Ali Khamenei lay draped in the flag of the Islamic Republic, flanked by the smaller caskets of the family members who …
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Renada Bici (Tirana Examiner Legal Desk) On Friday, the Coordinating Group of the protest movement delivered a formal declaration to the State Police and to the embassies of friendly states. It invoked Article 47 of the Constitution, cited the monitoring of the Albanian Helsinki Committee, and accused the police of disproportionate force on July …
