From October, radical reform in the Ministry of the Interior AGAINST BRIBERY POLICE WITH LIVE CAMERAS Every patrol will be monitored from the command center, also to protect the police. Minister Tahiri’s powers are expanded: Anticontraband, unauthorized construction and the Forestry Police will also be checked ► Pages 2-3

VISIT TO THE USA The “political wedding” Rama-Soros The prime minister special guest at the philanthropist’s third wedding in New York TIRANA FERNADA CENKO Prime Minister Edi Rama is invited to the wedding of billionaire and philanthropist George Soros. For the third time, at the age of 83, Soros dares to marry again. An invitation that confirms the preferential connection between the prime minister and the American financier.... ► Page 4

COMMENT ► Page 21 WHAT CAN EDI RAMA DO? BY JAMES TRAUB

Jorgjije Ikonomi underwent surgery for a breast tumor. “They put me in surgery without me knowing what they were going to do to me. I would never have removed my breast” EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE HOSPITAL “The doctors removed my breast without asking me” Jorgjije Ikonomi underwent surgery for a breast tumor. “They put me in surgery without me knowing what they were going to do to me. I would never have removed my breast” ► Page 9 IN THE PHOTO: (above) Jorgjije Ikonomi and a facsimile of the discharge summary from the hospital of 60-year-old Jorgjije Ikonomi IN THE PHOTO: (above) Jorgjije Ikonomi and a facsimile of the discharge summary from the hospital of 60-year-old Jorgjije Ikonomi

THE PHOTO WAR THE CONDITION OF THE PRIME MINISTER WHO IS LYING? After Rama’s denunciation, PD releases other images ► Page 5

► Pages 13-20 RILINDASI THE DEATH MASK OF THE GENIUS The death mask of the theater genius Aleksandër Moisiu The troubled eroticism of the poets Lasgush and Migjeni

... always one step ahead... Raw materials for restaurants, pizzerias, creperies and fast food.

Satire BY ARBEN DUKA “Don’t touch old Sali!..” Europe did not say it openly, but I know its language well, I understand its message: “Don’t touch old Sali!” Maybe you understood it too, you need not open your eyes, all the violence you lived through, is now called opposition. Now crime will take courage, it will preach in every corner, the mantle of opposition will be its shield. What I wrote about justice, I have not moved a comma or a period, but about its Triumph, I have constantly been skeptical. The bureaucrats of the house, where we want to put it, above all here they demand, a false stability... ► continues on page 21

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