Mayor Stefan Çipa: without music, business goes bankrupt The Health Minister meets local officials: Be careful with noise pollution. Çipa responds: Let the pubs stay open, the number of local tourists has fallen TAVO: Saranda’s discos kept Corfu awake all night The Health Minister meets local officials: Be careful with noise pollution. Çipa responds: Let the pubs stay open, the number of local tourists has fallen (In photo:) View from Saranda. The Health Minister, Vangjel Tavo, and the head of the municipality, Stefan Çipa On page 7

MOZAIKO Gjion Kastrioti bought land together with his sons on the holy mountain Skanderbeg’s brother, the tomb on Mount Athos Albanian fresco painters worked in the monasteries of this part of the Empire The chronicles of the time do not say who brought them the repeated news that they would paint on the Holy Mountain. But even if it is known, it does not really matter. The one who brought it simply told them that the Metropolitan had said the good news should be delivered in person and that they should be prepared as soon as possible. The insistence of Konstandin and Athanas received no answer. The icon painters, as they would be known throughout their lives and later in the iconographic history of the 18th century, looked each other in the eye. They had succeeded. Njevosi [?] like a few of them from Epirus and Western Macedonia and even fewer Albanians, their colleagues. In fact, the news of the Holy Mountain had long since become part of the myth and its canons... By BEN ANDONI Supplement

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PS: NO VOTE Eliot Engëll: Do you want candidate status? You must remove immunity On pages 2-4

Luçiana Naraçi denounces him after the divorce Transcript from 1978: the decadent Maks said that Fadil Paçrami stood like a man 5 YEARS OLD Luçiana Naraçi denounced him after the divorce Wife’s accusation: Maks Velo was honored as a fascist Transcript from 1978: the decadent Maks, said that Fadil Paçrami stood like a man By FATMIRA NIKOLLI The document that sheds light on the accusations the former wife made against Maks Velo before the investigative group is now revealed. Two years after the married couple Luçiana Naraçi and Maks Velo had separated from one another, the painter’s former wife appeared before investigator Dhimo Sinani, ... On page 9

KORÇE Family did not want her boyfriend, she hangs herself On page 8

WORKS New canal, earth mass kills two people in Bërzhitë On page 5

TIRANE Traffic, 40 million lek for the new road at “Brryli” On page 6