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Article: Albania.(Country Profile)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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INVESTIGATIVE journalists bullied into silence by police, army officers or plainclothes mafiosi. The vast sinister fleet of stolen and illegally imported Mercedes Benzes on the streets of its cities. The jerry-building everywhere since 1990 that has seen apartment blocks spring up without permission all over Tirana's main parks ...
'Freedom' only seems to have reinforced outsiders' view of Albania as Europe's Number One Anomaly. But the trouble has been a long time brewing. Albanian is Europe's oldest living language and its survival is perhaps the greatest riddle of all.
Take Durres. From the 11th to the 14th centuries, five different powers fought each ...
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