“The government spends money on amateurish works” The Deputy Chair of the Academy of Sciences rebels: There should be no independence monument in Tirana Muzafer Korkuti: How can funds be given to “Vatra” in the USA when the Academy of Sciences is not given funding. In Tirana, only the bust of Ismail Qemali. Amazement: how can Jozefina Topalli sign the act of Independence. In communism some names were removed, now one name has been added In photo: Myzafer Korkuti and Kristo Frashëri

DHURATA HAMZAI The promotion of the newest book by the academic Kristo Frashëri, the album “Ismail Qemali,” has given academics a reason to express dissatisfaction and accusations... continues on pages 8-9

Comment BY PREÇ ZOGAJ Corruption and transparency The digital government promoted by Prime Minister Berisha is the last in Europe and among the last in the world in terms of transparency with the public. The World Right to Information Rating for 2011 ranked Albania 81st out of 89 countries analyzed. Serbia and Croatia are much better than us. Even Kosovo is ahead of us in this field. The above data were published this week in Tirana at a round table of civil society, which focused on the implementation of the Law on the Right to Information and the need to amend it. This law has been in force for more than ten years. During this time Albania has made significant progress in introducing modern information technology. Outwardly this kind of technological revolution should have given a strong boost to the implementation of the law in the sense that information requested by the media or by various citizens would be obtained in record time by email. In reality, the opposite has happened. In the sense for which it was created—first and foremost to force public institutions to give citizens that unclassified information that they cannot find published anywhere—the law has become almost unusable. There is plenty of “information,” but little knowledge. This is the great trap that has been set for the Albanian public’s right to transparency. The government bombards citizens day and night with propagandistic news, confusing transparency with... continues on page 6

Local authorities issue the deeds, owners are compensated elsewhere DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT TIRANA FERNADA CENKO The Socialist Party has described the bill brought to Parliament on the transfer of agricultural land into ownership without compensation as political. Socialist deputies have expressed concern in... Page 2

Arta Dade: The President, ours, Berisha doesn’t have the numbers Page 4

Tahir Muhedini of the Cham community did not pay the electricity bill for 2 years Page 6

Page 7 Fazliç at Sheraton, the Germans: We are waiting for OST’s decision on energy

The promotion of the Album “Ismail Qemali” by Prof. Dr. Kristo Frashëri has given academics a reason to express dissatisfaction and accusations against the policies pursued by the government and the Albanian state regarding the organization of the 100th anniversary of Independence celebrations. The Deputy Chair of the Academy of Sciences, Mr. Myzafer Korkuti, says that the government funds amateurish works.

Page 10 The killing, the British in Tirana for the burned Albanian, Agim Hoxha

Page 21 Milot-Rrëshen, a company steals the railway gravel

Pages 13-20 Depression, WHO: The second leading cause of disability in the world in 2020

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