Remembering Janusz Bugajski: Scholar, Mentor, and Lifelong Friend of the Balkans Janusz Bugajski (1954–2025) The international academic and analytical community has lost one of its most lucid and principled voices. Janusz Bugajski,
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U.S. Representative Eliot L. Engel Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs “To say that the United States and Kosovo have a warm and close relationship would be understating the depth
Karol BACHURA Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Tirana Within a short period of time, I once again admire the solidarity of Albanians in difficult times, at a time when no
In his frequent addresses via social media to the Albanian public on the Covid-19 crisis and measures, Prime Minister Edi Rama often claims that Albania is in this war alone and that
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL In the midst of the public health emergency of the Covid-19 the horror of a severe and crippling economic crisis is just a few days away, when at the
It is natural and expectable to be engulfed in the rushed, almost panicky mood of the moment, trying to do the best to restrain the epidemic of the Covid-19. Of course containment
It is the simplest example in every household or even dorm room or that unless everyone is on board one can never succeed to clean up the mess and make it look
Interview with Dr. Zef Preci, Director of Albanian Center for Economic Research (ACER) Mr Preci thank you for this interview with Tirana Times. I want to start by asking your expert insights
By Yuri Kim This year (2020) is a big, big year for Albania’s path toward joining the European family fully. And we’re excited and we’re honored to be standing at the side
Interview with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacek Czaputowicz by Executive Director of AIIS, Alba Çela Poland has always been supportive of the enlargement perspective of the Union, particularly of the integration
TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Albania is still spared the experience of having confirmed infected people with the coronavirus (COVID- 19) that is wreaking havoc in many countries across the globe, and most importantly
By Łukasz Kamiński Poles, similarly to other nations in Russia, were targeted by communist persecution nearly since the first days after the Bolshevik coup. After the Polish-Bolshevik war was ended and the