MINORITY VOTE, ROAD SIGNAGE CHANGES IN THE VILLAGES OF POGRADEC The mayor of Pustec municipality is running for the “Alliance for the Citizen”, Edmond Themelko: We got permission from the Prefect of Korçë. Law: The permit is issued by the General Road Directorate By BLEDAR HOTI Two weeks before the local elections of 8 May, the municipality of Pustec is being filled with signs bearing the names of streets and squares in Macedonian. The municipality, which once bore the name Liqenas, has also involved officials from the municipality of Gazi Baba in Macedonia, campaigning also for the official candidate of the governing coalition led by the PD. Edmond Temelko, who holds the post of mayor of the... Continues on page 5 In the photo: Signs in Albanian and Macedonian placed in the villages of the municipality of Pustec in Pogradec

Opinion of the Day Opinion of the Day By SHABAN MURATI As if it were not enough that Bosnia-Herzegovina has been sitting on a mine for 16 years, called the “Serb Republic,” which... Another Croatian fuse for Bosnia Continues on page 21

Klejdi Zguro: It is simply a structure in a Roman villa Specialist from the Directorate of Culture: The city was not created in the 1st century By GILMANA BUSHATI The Tirana Mosaic, which everyone knows is Milku, has a sign at its entrance that tells no one what it is about. “Ancient monument” is one plaque on the right-hand side of the entrance door, while on the other side, where visiting hours are also shown, one can learn a characteristic of this mosaic: “Roman villa”. We turn to the experts on this mosaic to explain why one entrance does not tell citizens or tourists which period the monument belongs to, and secondly, if it is a villa, regardless of being Roman, built in Tirana, could it mean that Tirana has another founding date than the one we know so far, 1614. If Tirana was founded only because ... Continues on page 8 IN THIS PLACE THERE IS AN OLD MOSAIC. CULTURAL MONUMENT PROTECTED BY THE STATE. IN THIS PLACE THERE IS AN OLD MOSAIC. CULTURAL MONUMENT PROTECTED BY THE STATE.

PD CANDIDATE: IT IS THE NOTARY’S SLIP On page 4

Yesterday in the “New York Times” Yesterday in the “New York Times” By ZHARKA RADOJA With the publication of the list, Serbia’s involvement in the wars is practically acknowledged for the first time. According to data from the Humanitarian Law Center during... Serbia finally admits the wars Continues on page 20

“WE BRING BACK THE SPLENDOR TO THE HISTORIC CITY” On page 2

DISCRIMINATION On page 13

DURRËS On page 14

TAX AMNESTY On page 9

VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT On page 10