STATEMENT/ THE CRITIC OF THE LARGEST LEFT-WING PARTY, ANDIS HARASANI, SPEAKS PS ELECTIONS Harasani: I want Tirana, Tahiri stays silent The race for the capital will take place in January. The first candidates emerge against Edi Rama’s appointed man. The presidency and secretaries will be chosen on Saturday By DARINA TANUSHI The socialist MP, known as one of the harshest critics of the official line, Andis Harasani declared yesterday that he may be one of the candidates for the chair of the PS branch in Tirana. Harasani has apparently decided to challenge the contest that is expected to take place in January next year, against Saimir Tahiri, the chairman appointed by Edi Rama since the departure of former chairman Besnik Baraj. Andis Harasani has finally decided to leave open the possibility of entering the race for the leadership of Tirana. In an interview for News 24, Harasani... Continues on page 2

INTERVIEW/MEMORIES OF ALBANIA On pages 16-17

Yesterday in “La Stampa” By MARIO CALABRESI We journalists are still indispensable, but the world has already changed completely; citizens and readers are no longer passive as they once were now... Good journalism knows how to value the news Continues on page 20

Opinion of the Day Russian diplomacy seems to have understood the popular uprisings that swept through the Arab countries this year, and it did not like them. It lined up with the autocrats,... By SHABAN MURATI Russian diplomacy seems not to have understood, and not to have liked, the popular uprisings that swept through the Arab countries this year. It lined up with the autocrats,... Russia is losing the Middle East train Continues on page 21

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THE INCIDENT AT THE 9-STORY BUILDINGS On page 14

UNKNOWN INTERVIEW/ Spoke 3 months before Independence EXCLUSIVE (In photo:) Ismail Qemali, the raising of the flag in Vlora in 1912, facsimile of the newspaper that published Ismail Qemali’s interview 10 days before Independence was declared The unpublished interview of the wise old man of Vlora is revealed. In August 1912 he was confused and on 20 November, 10 days before the great event, he declared to the Italian media the raising of the flag... Politics is divided in decorated Tirana, President Topi in Vlora, Prime Minister Berisha in Tirana and Edi Rama in Kosovo. Speaks the successor of Ismail Qemali On pages 8-9

The incident in Vlora, the victims from Patos ‘They went to take care of the grandparents’ house’ By ENRIK MEHMETI Two spouses from the apartment in the “24 Maji” neighborhood, Dytëza of Patos, have lost their lives after being asphyxiated by heater gas. Official sources from the Ministry of Public Order say that 51-year-old Avni Bezhani and his wife, Myzejene Bezhani, were found dead in the same house, in the “Çole” neighborhood of the city of Vlora. Around 14:30, the operations room of the Vlora Police Commissariat received a report that in the aforementioned neighborhood two lifeless persons had been found...... On page 13

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