RILINDASI SUPPLEMENT / The artist Edi Rama’s interview in the newspaper “Drita” is republished 20 years after publication RAMA, THE “PROPHET” BACK IN ‘92 “Politics is like a ladder, as you climb it you become a sacrifice” Edi Rama in 1992: As long as people wait for answers from the podiums, there will be no democracy in Albania. The Fourth Plenum? At that time, I could have been an enemy of the regime, but I could also have been a spy. The journalist Kallamata who interviewed him: the Rama of ’92 that I know, would have harshly commented on the Rama of 2012

REQUEST Pages 4-5 PS deputies to Parliament: Investigations into ministries and the Guard Pirro Lutaj and Armando Prenga request data on Defence and the Ministry of the Interior

INTERVIEW BY EDITH HARXHI “Berisha, a meeting with Putin in Russia” Deputy foreign minister to ITAR-TASS. Lavrov is coming to Tirana, Haxhinasto to Moscow TIRANA Prime Minister Berisha will undertake a visit to Saint Petersburg in June this year, where he will attend an economic forum, at which his Russian counterpart will also be present. The second-ranking figure in Albanian diplomacy says that a visit will come to Tirana... Pages 2-3

PRIVATIZATION Brace: The government is selling the Military Hospital The denunciation of the merger of “Trauma” and the transfer to Zall-Herr Page 5

Edi Rama in an interview published in the newspaper “Drita” in 1992 talks about politics and the future of Albanians. After 20 years, journalist Arben Kallamata, who interviewed Rama, also speaks out, criticizing the painter’s entry into politics TIRANA ADMIRINA PEÇI “Politics has always seemed to me like an endless staircase, on every step of which, as you climb, you must sacrifice a part of yourself...” I imagine Edi Rama as a painter, while, sitting on the steps in front of the Academy of Arts, in this journalist’s photo... continues on page 13

In the photo: Edi Rama in 1992, photo by Italian journalist Giovanni Ruggiero Page 7

BY ANILA BASHA 2007, the “concessionary” meeting Fatos Nano announced his ambition for the Presidency. It is not the first time, but this time the press and public opinion are boiling over with debates and discussions surrounding Nano’s candidacy. Even Prime Minister Sali Berisha is full of doubts himself. The changes in his statements in recent days, regarding the majority’s candidate or from the right-wing ranks of the PD, are always different. Perhaps Prime Minister Berisha had forgotten the meeting with Nano. I went to his office to remind him. Me – Hello, Mr. Prime Minister. Him – Come in, Anila, we can guess why you came. Me – About the President, doctor. I opened the “political diary” I keep at home. January 2007. The journalists were freezing outside at the Palace of Brigades to conclude the strange, completely unexpected meeting of yours, Mr. Prime Minister, and former Prime Minister Fatos Nano. Do you remember it or not? Not that I ask for no reason. You remember everything. Nothing that has been discussed there has ever come out from outside the doors of the Palace of Brigades. But allow me, Mr. Prime Minister, to remind the public of that meeting. Because it seems that very soon it will also return in our “agendas” for opening the archives... continues on page 6

ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION Page 7 Himara, INUK: The operation will continue further Bollano accuses Idrizi. The trial over the signs is closed

PROPOSAL Muslims: We want religious cemeteries, not mural ones

FUNDS The government leaves students without expeditions: There’s no money

This professional fair is held in the premises of the company “Neranxi”. All culinary innovations (kitchen, pastry, gelateria, bars, etc.) can be discovered during the two days of the fair. In addition, tomorrow, the company invites you today to its premises on 22 April from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

POETRY Page 11 Dashamir and Esmeralda Uruçi Dashamir Uruçi, verses of pain for the loss of Esmeralda

TENDERS Public works, here are the firms that took the budget millions Page 8