Only the bed in the Student City costs 400 thousand lek Here are the payments that high school graduates who enter university for the first time must make for all majors. The most expensive are the fine arts. Top students are exempt from the annual fee ▸ Pages 2-3

NEW GOVERNMENT Paskal Milo: I want a ministry PDS leader: It is not about another post, so what did we fight for then ... TIRANA ARTEMISA HOXHA The chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Paskal Milo, who received 1,838 votes in the June 23 elections, is asking the prime minister of the new government cabinet for a ministerial post, based on all the contributions he has made... ▸ Page 5

ACCIDENT ▸ Page 8 Writer Pëllumb Çabej falls from the second floor “None of the neighbors helped me. The awning saved me”

INTERVIEW Selami Xhepa: Basha, a protector of Sali Berisha’s interests The former Democratic Party MP and member of the National Council explains the distortions in the race for party chair and says Tirana will have a non-functional mayor ▸ Pages 6-7 IN PHOTO: Selami Xhepa

Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Who will believe Basha? He no longer has long and muscular legs, as Artur Zheji sometimes likes to describe him. Perhaps not even as short as a lie, because the latter in the Democratic Party elections was not his exclusive monopoly. But still, it seems he has long hands. To take votes that do not belong to him. Even if he did not dirty his own hands, the acceptance of the fact, even if only sweatily, makes him equally guilty, as in 2011 when he was elected mayor, as in 2013 when he was elected party chairman. And this guilt is not only a headache for Lulzim Basha, but a huge stain attached to the Democratic Party, as a vote thief within its own house. And who will not doubt in every election that the DP will be green? Who will now believe that Basha plays clean?! With... continues on page 21

DOSSIER ▸ Pages 10-11 HOW THE ZOGU-PASHIĆ AGREEMENT AFFECTED THE BORDERS Why Shën Naumi fell into the hands of Belgrade

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▸ Pages 13-20 RILINDASI MEMORIES AND SYRJAVLORA Facts and new documents about the Independence flag New facts: in Vlora, only one flag was not raised The silent library of Kasëm Trebeshina, here are the unpublished works

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