EXCLUSIVE/ The foundation party of the prime minister’s wife defies the crisis BERISHA’S MILLION-EURO DINNER Businessmen “at war” to buy 15 paintings Here are all the names, the tables and the amounts paid A ticket costs 500 euros for one seat. The works sold for sky-high prices. The first canvas sold for 30 thousand euros, two others for 100 thousand euros each. Ambassadors, ministers and politicians also attended the celebration News Mrs. Liri Berisha, president of the “Children of Albania” Foundation, hosted last night at the “Sheraton” hotel the annual gala evening for the charity auction. At the party, attended by politicians, businessmen and foreign diplomats, 15 paintings by Albanian artists were sold. TIRANA ARBEN RROZHANI Hundreds of guests. From the President of the Republic, Bujar Nishani, the Speaker of Parliament, Jozefina Topalli, Prime Minister Berisha, ministers, MPs, ambassadors, powerful business people and media figures close to the government. כולם gathered around the giant “table” that the prime minister’s wife, Liri Berisha, lays out every year. The venue-the Sheraton hotel in Tirana... continues on pages 2-3 In the photo: Mrs. Liri Berisha avoiding the kiss of Herman Sullivan, manager of the same foundation in the US
Here are the contradictions of Ajshe’s father
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Bejko’s tears: Continue the strike but do not burn yourselves
HUNGER STRIKE Bejko’s tears: Continue the strike but do not burn yourselves Pages 6-7 The former political persecuted man is interviewed by “A1REPORT” at the Bari hospital
The marked ones
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Rally, Berisha brings the children to school on Saturday
DIBËR Page 21 Rally, Berisha brings the children to school on Saturday
The film “Nëntori i dytë” is remade with 65 thousand dollars
RESTORED Page 23 The film “Nëntori i dytë” is remade with 65 thousand dollars
Kalivaç HPP, Becchetti: They threatened me with death
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