'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.
Through the real story of his grandmother – who hailed from Gjakova in Kosovo but remained in Albania during communism and was unable to meet her family back in Kosovo for around 40 years ...
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 ...
Based on extensive research and abundant archival footage this documentary covers the history of Albania in the 20th century with a special focus on the troubled relationship with Italy its ...
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 ...