Ambassadors

. Nishan-Government dispute over Neritan Ceka? ► Page 7

KADARE’S VERSES ABOUT LENIN REVEALED

EXCLUSIVE. The elegy was written in 1957 but published for the first time in 1970. KADARE’S VERSES ABOUT LENIN REVEALED. “His name like a precious stone,” “There would be no sunset over the world, the fiery sun of October.” The poem appears in the literary magazine “Nëntori” together with a dedication by Xhevahir Spahiu. ► Page 14. [Text in the reproduction of the manuscript:] ISMAIL KADARE / Lenin / ... It happened that she would read verses while he wrote in his diaries about what he was experiencing, at the moments of sunset. Krupskaya. For him I thought a great deal, And often I was ready to write; But in the verses of my notebook His name is rare, like a precious stone. In verse He must be ... Through the revolutionary storm, Amid the frosts of the third autumn, Amid the flags that [?] ... aflame. That is why I have often torn up my lyrics ... Because it seemed to me they carried no scent of storm, But the scent of fields, of mown grass Where the little moon watches over the road that lies ahead.

People’s Advocate: Gay marriage in Albania

PROPOSAL ► Pages 4-5. People’s Advocate: Gay marriage in Albania. Clergy’s reactions: We recognize only the family of a man and a woman.

Billions of lekë flow abroad; online betting blocked

THE FIGHT AGAINST GAMES OF CHANCE. Billions of lekë flow abroad; online betting blocked. All foreign websites will no longer be accessible from Albania.

TIRANA

. Mariglen Mullia. Rooms full of machines that do not work. Cold spaces with one or two computers and one or two teenagers keeping watch. This is... ► Pages 2-3

AS SIMPLE AS BREAD AND CHEESE

BLOG/OPINION ► Page 20. AS SIMPLE AS BREAD AND CHEESE. BY ALBA MALLTEZI

GOVERNMENT

► Page 6. Negotiations reopen with the Czech company CEZ Group.

The debate over a photo

Editorial. BY ANILA BASHA. The debate over a photo. I am Orthodox, if people ask me about my religion. My father’s name is Aristotel (which is entirely Orthodox), but our family surname is Basha (which, in fact, most people tell me is Muslim). Never... ► continued on page 20

Political satire

. BY ARBEN DUKA. Is this Berisha guilty of abuse of office or what?! The “grandson of Skanderbeg” is reciting by rote to us about some kind of scenario, like Papandreou’s?!... ► continued on page 21, also with “VIPs and rhymes”

Cyan magenta yellow black

KADARESE FOR LENIN I am Orthodox, if rooms full of machines that don't work. Hidden premises with