THE PRIME MINISTER’S OFFERS RAMA: I’m ready to go even to the PD tent for unconditional dialogue The Prime Minister signs the petition: There is no technical government, the people have decided by vote Page 5
Roman graves and objects discovered in the Byzantine Forum in Durrës Findings beneath the surface of the Byzantine wall at the Rotonda. Rare discoveries also in Zgërdhesh in Krujë BY MARK BRUNGA ► PAGES 12-13
1949 YEAR SECRET TALKS USA-ALBANIA FOR THE RESTORATION OF RELATIONS PAGES 20-21 BY Mark Brunga
9 MAY, A RARE STORY How Albanians fought in the Australian army against the Japanese BY MARK BRUNGA P. 18-19
“Rilindasi” supplement How the works of writer Mitrush Kuteli disappeared. On May 4, the 50th anniversary of the writer’s death is marked BY Behar Gjoka ► PAGES 13-21
Zogu fined officers who went with women during service with 50 gold francs ► Pp. 20-21 BY Mark Brunga
By Mark Brunga Dr. Aleko Pojani, the Albanian genius who turned submarine command into an art, has passed away. He was 21 years old when he commanded submarine 105 ► P 12-13 BY MARK BRUNGA THE CAPTAIN OF THE ‘SUBMARINE 105’ AND HIS MYSTERIOUS MISSIONS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Dr. Ale
MEMORIES OF THE FORMER FISHERMAN PASKAL ALLKANJARI: HOW WE MINED DURRËS BAY WITH FISHING BOATS IN 1984 BY Mark Brunga PAGE 20-21
KOSTA GJOKA: THE “RADIO PLAY” OF THE PRISONER WITH THE PRISON POLICE FOR THE US 6th FLEET BY MARK BRUNGA ▶ PAGES 13-20
“RILINDASI” SUPPLEMENT The rare documents of the State Security and the Greek Police are revealed BY Mark Brunga SIMON RROTA’S DIARY, HOW THE FRANCISCAN CHURCH IN SHKODËR WAS BUILT BY DECREE OF THE SULTAN RILINDASI The Security documents A Stradivarius trafficked between Albania,
DOSSIER Xhevdet Mustafa ’80, how the spy network was exposed How the Security Service learned the truth that foreign intelligence services had penetrated as far as Tirana’s Communist Block Mark Brunga ▶ PAGE 22
P. 12-13 BY Mark Brunga
“RILINDASI” PAGES 15-22 IMZOT FRANO ILLIA, THE MAN WHO DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO THE CHURCH, THE NATION AND CULTURE The biography of the Albanologist bishop, based on archival documents BY KASTRIOT MARKU The captain’s account: How we smuggled thousands of transistors for television c
RILINDASI PAGES 13-20 THE TRIANGLE AS A SYMBOL WAS IBRAHIM KODRA A MASON? A special story about preserving a lock of the painter’s childhood hair. Memories and unknown details from Fadil Kodra’s home BY MARK BRUNGA
The UFO issue in the files of the State Security. Real facts and memories from “They Must Not Know” pp. 20–21 by Mark Brunga
WHY THE EPIC OF THE KRESHNIKS HAS REMAINED UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE SERBO-CROAT EPIC The founding meeting of the PKSH, the missing minutes, Enver Hoxha’s anxiety The 1949 documents, Washington’s dilemmas over recognizing Enver Hoxha’s regime BY Robert Elsie The founding meeting of
“Our Lady of Shkodër,” how the fresco was moved from Shkodër to Rome in 1467 By Dr. Dom Nikë Ukgjini Pages 13-20 inside... September 1945, Zogu ready to cooperate with the communists By Mark Brunga 20th-century Korça was the Korça of Saint George By Naum Mara
PAGES 13-20 PARTISAN UNIT THAT KILLS GERMAN WOMEN AND SICK SOLDIERS Major Herman Frank recounts stories from the Second World War BY Ylli Polovina The center of Durrës, a century of history through photos and memories BY Mark Brunga RILINDASI.com Sunday September 14/09/2014 20 pa
Kol Rodhe, the twists and turns around the authorship of the Flag of Independence THE ITALIANS IN DURRËS IN THE 1930s, INVESTORS AND HUNTERS ALBANIAN DEMOCRACY, THE COMMUNIST PAST IN THE WOUNDS OF THE LONG ALBANIAN TRANSITION BY FREDERIK STAMATI THE ITALIANS IN DURRËS IN THE 1930
The mystery of the disappearance of Muharrem Bajraktari’s two sons in 1946 BY PETRIT PALUSHI RILINDASI Sunday Supplement to SHQIPTARJA.com April 1946 The disappearance of Muharrem Bajraktari’s two sons Photo album 1953, how the National Theatre was Sovietized BY MARK BRUNGA The F