INTERVIEW/ SPEAKS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUDGET IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE FORMERLY PERSECUTED PEOPLE “How 6 billion lek will be distributed” Mimoza Dhëmbi: The fund is for 3 years, 75% is planned for those who are still alive. 13,167 former political prisoners will benefit. The documents needed to complete the file By ORNELA MANJANI The Ministry of Finance has a clear strategy for compensation payments to former political persecuted people. The fund reaches up to 2 billion lek for each year, which is planned for this year and for the next three years. According to calculations, 6 billion lek will be distributed over three years. The priority categories for compensation payments are former women political prisoners, who are alive at the moment the payment is made, and former political prisoners who are alive at the time of payment and are over 75 years old as the law comes into force... On page 5

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Today’s Opinion By KIÇO BLUSHI Today's Opinion By KIÇO BLUSHI These days a friend asked me what I understood by the word belfjekulturë and whether, in my opinion, this kind of “new culture” - if it is such a thing, ... Continues on page 21 Belfjekultura

DOSSIER/ “He asked for a meeting, I told Ramiz not to let him in through the window” (In photo:) Prof. Eqerem Çabej with Enver Hoxha in the year of the latter. Facsimile of Enver’s letter to Ramiz in which he denies Çabej permission to go abroad The event in December 1969, Hoxha did not receive the distinguished academic in a meeting. “Let some other younger and more capable one go to Austria, not this one every time” By IV KALOÇI The defamatory letter written by Enver Hoxha in December 1969 to the linguist, Albanologist... On pages 10-11

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AKKP Archive On pages 18-19

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