Opinion of the Day There is neither anxiety nor curiosity for the greatest cultural event produced by Albania: the national year-end song festival so easy... By EDMOND ARIZAJ A staged festival? Continued on page 20
Opinion of the Day How is it possible that our Albanian traditions are being ruined more and more every day? Could anyone have imagined 100 years ago that that girl from Librazhd... Continues on page 21 By EDMOND ARIZAJ The betrayal of Librazhd that ruined our traditions
By EDMOND ARIZAJ Sea, sand and sun will become a very expensive luxury for Albanians
Opinion of the Day By EDMOND ARIZAJ These tourists of this year’s boom, who complain and chatter on and on, if they still want low prices and five-star service too, should go to Sardinia, to Santorini... Sea, sand and sun will become a very expensive luxury for Albanians Continue
By EDMOND ARIZAJ A sold festival?
Comment Which history should we teach our children? By EDMOND ARIZAJ On page 26
PORTRAIT ▸ Page 10 A Spahi, red and black BY Edmond Arizaj
The Albanian Alexander BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Page 18
BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Saving the soul Some consider it almost pointless to bother with the ravings of Golden Dawn and those who provide the backdrop for them. The arguments are halfway between civil and civic, but it is like using logic with rabid dogs. If today we move forward, leavi
PROFILE ▸ Page 8 The LSI count BY EDMOND ARIZAJ
Feuilleton BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Let go of the armchair! This fight for the armchair is very ugly. Someone only needs to try it once (the armchair) and then they will never let go of it. Another sees the one who has tried it and enjoyed it and asks to touch it too. And what importance
Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ “Manly” barbarity Are these men? Are they brave? Are they honorable? Whatever epithet they have given themselves, they are not. They are neither men nor brave nor honorable. They are simply cowards. They have killed the mothers of their children. Whatev
Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ To respect the state (An event in the street) Yesterday, as I was returning from Vlora, I happened upon a road accident just after passing the Lushnje roundabout. A car had crashed into the roadside barriers and after several somersaults had ended up up
Jozefina’s fortress BY EDMOND ARIZAJ ► Page 7
PORTRAIT ▸ Page 12 Bamir for Tirona BY EDMOND ARIZAJ
PS unites north and south live Page 2 IN THE PHOTO: The closing rally in Flag Square in Vlora. (Top) Yesterday’s rally in Shkodra Rama like Noli: From Shkodra to Vlora A spectacular campaign closing by the Socialist Party in two cities IN THE PHOTO: The closing rally in Flag Squa
PORTRAIT WITHOUT AUTHORISATION Page 9 Rama, the challenge of a reborn man BY EDMOND ARIZAJ
Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ The leadership knows it! It was that simple! But why did an extraordinary session have to be held, as if one of the hundreds of enemies surrounding us, as Kreshniku says, had declared war on us? Couldn’t it have been done in a normal session? That way t
The great one, little Erjoni BY EDMOND ARIZAJ ▸ Page 16
Editorial BY EDMOND ARIZAJ Kreshnik, are you leaving?! It is a question that naturally arises after yesterday’s “one million” protest, which was missing a full three zeroes. Of course, this failure of the Red and Black Alliance was also influenced by the events of the last few da