Parents of Albanian students withdraw their children from a math competition and protest in front of the building of the Association of Mathematicians of Macedonia, due to tests being only in Macedonian, in Albania, protests have been announced starting on February 11, up until Rama leaves. This is just part of the selection of topics from Albanian media in the region that CIVIL Media’s editorial office has made for today’s edition of AL-PRESS.
NISTORI: Albanian students discriminated at math competition, tests only in Macedonian
“The Association of Mathematicians of Macedonia today discriminated the Albanian students at the math competition, by not offering tests in Albanian, thus putting the Albanian students in an unequal competition with those of the Macedonian community, reports Macedonian media outlet in Albanian Nistori.
PANORAMA: A wave of protests will start on February 11 that will end only when Edi Rama leaves
Former MP from the lines of the democrats in Albania Klevis Baliu in an interview for TV PANORAMA said that the national protest of February 11 “is not a date of the protest, but of the start of a wave of protests that will end only when Edi Rama leaves”, reported the Albanian outlet Panorama.
ARBRESH: Victims of sexual violence during the war in Kosovo, so far 2 thousand reports
“Yesterday, the five-year deadline for women and men to apply for recognition of the status of victims of sexual violence ended. So far, according to the government commission for recognition of the status of victims of sexual violence, about 2000 people have applied for recognition of their status as survivors of sexual violence from the war during 1998-1999”, reports Arbresh.
KOHA: 24 years since the Rambouillet Conference
“24 years ago, on February 6, 1999, the Rambouillet Conference began its work. This meeting, which was held in the vicinity of Paris, France, had the goal to settle the crisis in Kosovo.
The initiator of the Conference, which lasted until February 24, was the Contact Group, while mediators were Christopher Hill from the United States, Boris Maiorsky, Russia and Wolfgang Petritsch from the EU”, reports the Kosovo daily KOHA.
SYRI: The Albanians, the elephant and the Serbian Association!
“This metaphor about controlling the elephant is powerful for us Albanians, especially in the current situations when we metaphorically resemble an ‘adult elephant’, but actually our true will for national unity is disturbed by historical occupiers”, an excerpt of the column “The Albanians, the elephant and Serbian Association!”, from Shyqyri Haxha, published in the SYRI daily.
D.Tahiri
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
