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State Capture and Electoral Manipulation

ODIHR Report on Albania’s 2025 Elections Tirana, October 25, 2025. The final report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Albania’s May 11 parliamentary elections paints a

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Obituary

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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Türkiye and Albania: From Shared Past to Strategic Future

By Marjana Doda, This feature draws on exclusive insights from an interview with Ambassador Tayyar Kagan Atay, the Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye to Tirana. On the occasion of the 102nd

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Democracy, kidnapped by an illegitimate minority

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By Ilir Meta At the heart of democracy is the vote, the right of every citizen to be elected and to be elected, political pluralism. Democracy means that every citizen decides for

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Editorial: President hearings and the depth of the constitutional crisis

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL Things will get worse before they get better. The political, institutional and even constitutional crisis in the country continues to be in full swing. This week the parliament opened

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Beauty is relative, evaluation reports…are not!

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By Sidonja Manushi Some of the upsides of being governed by a painter in profession and an artist at heart are the capital buildings’ colorful facades and the Prime Minister’s own sense

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A paradox from Tirana: Failed coup d’etat in Turkey, memorial in Albania

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By Alfonc Rakaj A memorial built in Tirana’s central park for the fallen of the failed Turkish coup in 2016 has been publicly shunned. Turkey’s assertive foreign policy toward the region, and

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Editorial: Going beyond the farce of June 30

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The recent complete report of the OSCE Elections Observing Mission on the Electoral process of June 30 is being depicted as not surprising. All the inconsistencies, irregularities and breaches

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Missing in Action: Albania’s voice nowhere near key events discussing integration

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TIRANA TIMES OP-ED The Bled Strategic Forum, a regional activity that gathers the “who is who” of regional politics and a variety of international actors who are relevant to the Western’s Balkans

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“September 1939 – Poland caught in War with the svastika and the hammer and sickle”

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By Karol Bachura* World War II, the bloodiest world war, which the humanity has ever known, started in September 1939 with the German (Sept. 1) and Soviet (Sept. 17) invasion of Poland.

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Albania, the controversial media law

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By Matteo Trevisan According to the main advocacy organisations, the reform – promoted by Prime Minister Edi Rama since October 2018 to counter the spread of fake news – would include a

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Chronicles and Fragments

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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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Hungary or Slovenia – Who will give the next enlargement Commissioner?

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By Emina Muminović With only a month left for the nomination of candidates for the next European Commission, two countries have expressed their interest for their candidate to be in charge of the

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Because of all the trees, I couldn’t see the forest

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By Sidonja Manushi It is a well known fact that war tactics perfectly work in politics too, and the good old “divide and conquer” must be a favorite of Albanian politicians. As

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Op-Ed - Page 33

State Capture and Electoral Manipulation

Obituary

Türkiye and Albania: From Shared Past to Strategic Future

Democracy, kidnapped by an illegitimate minority

Editorial: President hearings and the depth of the constitutional crisis

Beauty is relative, evaluation reports…are not!

A paradox from Tirana: Failed coup d’etat in Turkey, memorial in Albania

Editorial: Going beyond the farce of June 30

Missing in Action: Albania’s voice nowhere near key events discussing integration

“September 1939 – Poland caught in War with the svastika and the hammer and sickle”

Albania, the controversial media law

Chronicles and Fragments

Hungary or Slovenia – Who will give the next enlargement Commissioner?

Because of all the trees, I couldn’t see the forest

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