Inside the stone walls of a 13th-century fortress, Albanian and Russian actors are striving to re-enact a little-known but troubling chapter of their shared history for the big screen. Co-written by ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania's late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader's library, the country's ...

Protests have broken out in Albania over Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s $1.4bn purchase of the abandoned island of Sazan, a communist-era military base. In addition to the strip, the couple’s deal ...

Musine Kokalari paid a heavy price for opposing Albania’s slide into totalitarianism; a newly opened museum recalls her largely forgotten struggle for a more liberated society. This post is also ...

Indeed, the Albanian Communist Party conveniently rebranded itself as the supposedly kinder, gentler Socialist Party in 1991. Even now, Albanian State Television continues to be a propagandistic ...

Albania’s post World War II communist regime has proved to be with its own citizens as ruthless as Hitler’s Blitzkrieg (“lightning war”) campaign in Poland on September 1 st, 1939. Enver Hoxha’s ...

State body in charge of Communist-era secret police files said it has started a search for the graves and remains of some 44 Albanians who perished in the infamous labour camp of Spac. This post is ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A pharaonic landmark in central Tirana built as a posthumous museum for Albania’s communist-era strongman, Enver Hoxha, is being transformed into a youth training and art center ...

This article by Twyla Pittson first appeared in Balkan Diskurs on April 3, 2026. An edited version is being republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with the Post-Conflict ...

KUKES, Albania (AP) — If you'd like to walk for miles in concrete burrows built to defend an isolationist totalitarian regime that nobody wanted to attack, Kukes in northeastern Albania is the place ...