I was appalled when I learned about the beating of a well known journalist in Tirana by a well known businessman with ties to the current government. The incident was condemned by all major public and international institutions in the country. For more info I’ll just post the text of the article published by BalkanInsight. [...]
As I do every morning, even today I was roaming around the net to some of my preferred sites when I stumbled upon this post by Seth Godin, who is well known marketer. Anyway, the topic of his blog post was “the problem with cable news thinking”. In his post he goes on to give [...]
The final numbers for Albania’s general elections are not yet out, in my perspective the most important issue is the election process itself since the political options presented by both the right and left, do not present any improvements. At least not sufficient since what they have to offer is already old repackaged stuff. With [...]
They are almost always free, innocent, oblivious, and look good if you line them up behind you when you’re giving a speech. You can find a lot of them in schools around the country and all you have to do is tell your politically appointed teacher or school director to round them up and bring [...]
Lately, the news came out about an anarchist Albanian group called the Social Resistance Front, whose aim, as I understand it, is to warn top politicians and administration officials that if they continue doing “evil”, they might themselves be targeted with violence or even death.
As most of you who follow should be aware, this time of the year most of the media have been devoting a lot of attention to the initiation of the process whereby all Albanian citizens will be equipped with new identity cards with will ensure more transparent results in the upcoming general elections as well [...]
The liberalization of the visa regime with the EU is a much expected event for all Albanians. We long to be free to travel. Well, looks like things are moving up, but it will still be up to our government fulfilling all the EU requirements, including biometric identity cards and the fighting of organized crime, [...]
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