NESTI KONDAKÇI: I MET LILI WHEN SHE CAME BACK FROM ITALY, HER HUSBAND IS SICK LILJANA KONDAKÇI Brother: We didn’t tell our mother about the prison sentence 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 problems with enforcement By AURORA KOROMANI The news of the release of the well-known Albanian singer Liljana Kondakçi has caused a stir across the country. The well-known singer of the Albanian stage has been back in the capital for several days and has started dealing with the worries and problems of everyday life. At least this is the information given by the singer’s brother, Liljana Kondakçi’s brother, Nesti. He tells “Gazeta Shqiptare” that “Lili has been in Tirana for 10 days. She is very upset about everything that has been written and said in the Albanian media”. According to the brother of the well-known Albanian singer, false news has been published in the media. “Lili is very upset, because news has been published concerning her private life that is not true; it is not true that there are problems with enforcement and the house,” Liljana Kondakçi’s brother tells “GSH”. ... Continues on page 7

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PATIENTS COMPLAIN On page 6

SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS On page 11

INTERVIEW/ “Literature protected me from the privileges of power” (In the photo:) The well-known writer Besnik Mustafaj. The cover of the book 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 perfectly well” By FATMIRA NIKOLLI He seems to have spent his whole life living with a split identity, 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, of opposing... Continues on pages 10-11

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