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 ...
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 ...
'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.
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 ...
During the height of his rule ... efforts are also underway to preserve the history of Albania's communist period. Then in the farming village of Fishte, agritourism has breathed new life into ...
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 ...
Berisha was president from 1992 to 1997, immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, and then was prime minister from 2005 to 2013. The United States in 2021 barred Berisha from entering ...
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 ...