This chapter is from a forthcoming book on the fall of communism in Albania to be published next year by New York University Press. It describes the visit, 20 years ago today, of U.S. Secretary of State James Baker to Albania. Political parties had recently been legalized, but the communist...
Posted December 8, 2010 | 11:58:04 (EST)
Twenty years ago this week, student protests in Albania helped topple Eastern Europe's most closed and rigid communist regime. Four days of demonstrations culminated in the legalization of political parties on December 11, 1990.
This chapter on the student movement comes from a forthcoming book on the fall of communism...
Posted December 6, 2010 | 13:03:48 (EST)
Originally Posted by Balkan Insight.
Today's youth could learn from the student uprising that challenged the communist regime 20 years ago.
The collapse of communism in Albania was by no means a revolution. But some revolutionary moments took place, and this week marks the 20th anniversary of one...
Posted September 20, 2010 | 16:49:59 (EST)
Eleven years ago, during NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian forces killed more than 40 ethnic Albanian men in a Kosovo village called Cuska (Qyshk in Albanian). This month the hand of justice finally reached the men accused of the crime.
They served in a state-sponsored militia...
Posted November 4, 2009 | 08:03:11 (EST)
Yesterday the US Congress gravely insulted hundreds of civilians who were wounded or killed in the most recent war in the Middle East.
By a vote of 344 to 36, the House condemned the report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the...
Posted June 22, 2011 | 01:12:08 (EST)