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Why Albania’s domestic PR wars are being fought abroad

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A lot of effort and money has been spent in a PR war in the Western press between Albania’s main political parties; which raises the question: Why are Albanian parties fighting a domestic political contest in foreign lands?  For those of who follow Albania’s portrayal in the Western press, and in the American one in particular, February 2023 was a strange month. There has been a flurry of articles about Albanian domestic politics or and issues that relate to Albanian politics.  This is unusual. Typically Western media are mostly uninterested in anything that happens in Albania beyond something that is…

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