The son of an army general in communist Albania, Robert Budina was part of the student protests that helped bring down the regime, only to flee to Italy on an overcrowded boat. The experience has ...

(CN) – The small Balkan nation of Albania is shedding new light on its dark past: This year international experts are expected to begin exhuming and identifying the remains of victims of the country’s ...

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand of communism unknown to the rest of Eastern Europe. A fateful blend of isolationism and dictatorship kept this tiny Balkan country the poorest ...

Each teacher attending the TOLI conference received three books: “Flower of Vlora: Growing Up Jewish in Communist Albania,” an autobiography by retired Florida dentist Anna Kohen; an Albanian ...

The fall of communism has brought monumental changes to Albania, long the most isolated and repressed country of the Eastern bloc. During the last four years, the tiny nation has taken significant ...

Albania has launched a nationwide drive to ... The cemeteries were built and maintained by the postwar communist authorities. They were made a focal point of the official glorification of the ...

That generation is still alive.” A Jewish community scattered In 1991, Albania’s Marxist regime collapsed, in a year that marked the end of communism in Eastern Europe. The new democratic ...

Albania, according to Athanassios ... One night last week, as the Dynamo’s captain, Vassilis Kotzis, and two Communist soldiers assigned to guard his cargo of flour and tires were waiting ...

The controversial plan will see men from "safe" countries have their Italian asylum applications processed in Albania.