Brother: We did not tell our mother about the prison NESTI KONDAKÇI: I MET LILI WHEN SHE RETURNED FROM ITALY, HER HUSBAND IS ILL After being released from the Italian cells where she was serving a sentence for drugs, the singer returns to life in Tirana. Her brother: There are no enforcement problems By AURORA KOROMANI The news of the release of the well-known Albanian singer, Liljana Kondakçi, has caused a stir across the country. The famous singer of the Albanian stage has been back in the capital for several days and has begun dealing with the worries and problems of everyday life. At least this is the information given by the singer’s brother, Liljana Kondakçi, Nesti. He tells “Gazeta Shqiptare” that “Lili has been in Tirana for 10 days. She is very worried about everything that has been written and said in the Albanian media”. According to the brother of the well-known Albanian singer, false stories have been published in the media. “Lili is very worried, because news has been published about her private life that is not true; it is not true that she has problems with the bailiff and the house,” Liljana Kondakçi’s brother tells “GSH”. ... Continues on page 7

The Opinion of the Day By DRITAN HILA For several days now the prime minister has been attacking the opposition, accusing it of having people close to it who supposedly said that “all the scum should join together to overthrow Berisha”... Who is the “scum”? Continues on page 12

The Opinion of the Day By BUJAR NISHANI They trembled for hundreds of kilometers on foot or on horseback toward Tirana and Vlora. They turned into embers and hearth-fires, wrapping themselves... Patriotism, nothing else Continues on page 13

FRD LEADER, MEETINGS IN GRAMSH On page 2

THE AMBASSADOR On page 4

INTERVIEW/ “Literature protected me from the privileges of power” (In the photo:) The well-known writer, Besnik Mustafaj. The book cover in Italian The “old” poems in a book in Italian. “I refused twice to become minister, and when I accepted the third time, I left when things were going completely well for me” By FATMIRA NIKOLLI He seems to have lived a life that was divided, until 2007 when he made one of the most sensational resignations in our country. Under communism he did this because he found himself between two fears, which opposed one another... Continues on pages 10-11

PATIENTS COMPLAIN On page 6

SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS On page 11

KORÇË/ “DISAPPEARED” IN MAY 2012 On page 9

The life of the Albanian ideologue Literature by Moikom Zeqo, criticism by Josif Papagjoni, foreign poetry Supplement