This post is also available in this language: Shqip Bos/Hrv/Srp It was one of the most famous communist-era trials in 1946 in Albania. The picture of a woman with a black scarf on her head ...

Since the fall of Communism in the 1990s, Albania has seen societal changes which mean more rights for women. Valerjana sees it as a positive that the burrnesha tradition is dying out.

The son of an army general in communist Albania, Robert Budina was part of the student protests that helped bring down the regime, only to flee to Italy on an overcrowded boat. The experience has ...

For nearly half a century Albania experienced a brand of communism unknown to the rest of Eastern Europe. A fateful blend of isolationism and dictatorship kept this tiny Balkan country the poorest ...