EDITORIAL By Dhurim QERENIKA Raped modernization Albania is gripped by one of the most difficult moments in modern history. It finds itself in the midst of two severe shocks, which have destroyed the economic and social structures and paralyzed any effort and hope for progress and well-being. While it has emerged still without understanding, while it has failed without yet finding calm, from the terror of a mission, while it has once again come onto the stage, hundreds of raped Rashë, hundreds of unpublished inventories of gold 4 tons of gold were lost in Bursa The undisclosed links of the Governor of the Bank of Albania, Shkëlqim Cani, with the state treasury scandals. THE SEVEN GREAT THEFTS THAT IMPOVERISHED ALBANIA Raped modernization is gathering in a bleak scenario with much fear and a senseless burst of assaults. As the closed episode of a road to Golgotha shows, Albania up to now has been defeated, as if it were raped with a seemingly beautiful modernizing cloak. The phenomenon has been so frightening that politics, delayed as always, the honest government of the age, has not known how to emerge and stand in the millennium that is passing. We have been pushed forward, but one another in a small backdrop, not in the creation of social life. The stubbornness of corruption, the unresolved and unsettling presence of the duo of others and of the ten, and in the unwanted voice I have finished evenings, hundreds of statements and rapes, hundreds of inventories of gold and silver[?], while it has failed even before being understood, while hundreds of raped rashë, hundreds of raped rashë... Photo 3

Photo: Armando Babani GENTIANA RAMADANI, MISS ALBANIA 2000

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HOSPITAL Those in power smoke cigarettes 3 thousand tons of cigarettes brought in through smuggling — In 1990, Albania produced 25 thousand tons of tobacco — During 1999 this production fell to 6 thousand tons — In the Albanian market, around 6 thousand tons of cigarettes are consumed per year, from a land where it has reached 2000 tons — It seems that, despite the amount produced in the country, more than 3000 tons of cigarettes are brought into Albania through smuggling

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