Students in schools across Albania have started the week by singing the national anthem, as was announced some time ago, and as one of the biggest challenges in the country. According to Jamie Wiseman from the International Press Institute, the number of cases of police violence against media workers is worrying. This is just part of today’s selection by the Editorial Office of CIVIL Media from the content of Albanian media in the region.
ALBEU: New tradition, school year starts with the national anthem
“Every Monday, classes in Albanian schools start with the national anthem.
This is the new tradition, which has started to be applied in schools in our country.
Prime Minister Edi Rama posted a video on Facebook with the new tradition where students start the week by singing the national anthem”, reports Albanian media outlet Albeu.
DW: Limiting the space for obtaining information remains a major challenge in Albania
“Limiting the space for obtaining information further remains a major challenge for the media in Albania, says Jamie Wiseman from the International Press Institute, IPI in an interview for Deutsche Welle.
According to him, the number of cases of police violence against media workers is worrying, which make up 7 of the recorded 17 cases (41%).
INFOKUS: 32 years since the demolition of the bust of dictator Enver Hoxha
“32 years ago, on February 20, 1991, tens of thousands of citizens in Albania rose to tear down the symbol of communism, several months after the old regime, which was living its last days, allowed political pluralism”, reminds Albanian media outletInfokus.
EPOKA E RE: Blinken did not meet with Osmani and Kurti, Krasniqi: Bad alarm for both of them
“University professor Milazim Krasniqi reacted after President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti did not meet with US Secretary Antony Blinken at the security conference that is being held in Munich.
Krasniqi says that this can be interpreted as US’s dissatisfaction with the policy followed by Osmani and Kurti”, reports Kosovo daily Epoka e Re.
BOTA SOT: What is known so far about the Dehari case, the disappearance of the IML samplesand the accusations of Abazi
“The death of Astrit Dehari in the detention cell on November 5, 2016 further remains an unsolved mystery. Minister of Justice Albulena Haxhiu, on December 8, 2022 announced that the evidence in the case of the death of AstritDeharihad disappeared.
The Minister of Justice then said that they had suspended four officials of IML in connection to the case”, reports Kosovo daily Bota Sot.
KDP: The little Russian, Emir Kusturica
“Kusturica cannot travel to the United States, to Hollywood, and has been banned from entering some countries, such as the case, for example, to a festival in Ukraine. Kusturica as one of the best directors on the Balkans has lost his prior image and reputation. Now he is a director and screenwriter who works according to the agenda and dictate of the Serbian government”, an excerpt of the column “The little Russian Emir Kusturica”, by the author Mercan Yakupi, published in the Macedonian internet portal in Albanian language KDP.
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Translation: N. Cvetkovska
