'Letters From Hell', an exhibition in Tirana, explores the grim conditions in two of Communist Albania's most infamous prisons, Spac and Burrel, showcasing correspondence from some of the prisoners.

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand ... an ambitious effort to prosecute former communist officials who committed crimes during the previous regime. However, the process has ...

During the height of communist rule, the infamously paranoid and isolationist Hoxha closed off Albania’s borders, shot those who tried to leave, and built enough bunkers to house every family in ...

The fall of communism has brought monumental changes to Albania, long the most isolated and repressed country of the Eastern bloc. During the last four years, the tiny nation has taken significant ...

But after the collapse of communism in 1990 ... a leading TV reporter and author of a documentary about Albania during the Second World War, welcomed the restoration work, but called on the ...

Since the end of Albania's communist rule in 1991, the impoverished country of 2.8 million people has never held an election deemed fully free and fair, and failure again would further set back ...

Novelist Ismail Kadare - who died aged 88 of a heart attack in Tirana, Albania on Monday (July 1) - used his pen as a stealth weapon to survive Albania's paranoid communist dictator Enver Hoxha.

“Communist judges” are blocking the Italian government’s scheme to process migrants in Albania, the country’s deputy prime minister has claimed. The controversial proposal to process ...