Today: Feb 12, 2026

Tirana Times

Adriatik Llapaj, who has spent the past two weeks staging a solitary protest in front of the Prime Minister’s Office demanding the government’s resignation, is pictured with supporters on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025, alongside other protesters as his demonstration against the prime minister continues into the new year.

Albania 2026: Power Under Investigation

As Albania enters 2026, the country stands at a political and institutional crossroads shaped decisively by the shocks of 2025. What initially appeared to be a year of electoral routine and managed
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Op/Ed: A lesson for a new world politics

The UN has recognized the Srebrenica massacre as genocide by a majority vote. With this decision, the international community gives a warning signal against any form of genocide. And the role of
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A phone call not every writer wants

By Kristoffer Leandoer Every year he waits in vain by the phone on this very day, and a whole nation waits with him. Every year the Albanian people are equally surprised that Ismail
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Chronicles and Fragments

The novels of Ismail Kadare. By James Wood  Like Trieste or Lvov, the medieval city of Gjirokastër, in southern Albania, has passed its history beneath a sign perpetually rewritten, in different hands, but
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