Somewhere in Pakistan a plane is preparing to carry Afghans to Germany. It is the third one to take off since the election, ...

Some sources categorise it as being the Eastern Bloc; in other words, only including countries that were Communist during the Cold War. Meanwhile, other sources say that nations including Albania ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

Nazmi Rrahmani, one of the first Kosovo Albanian writers to have his works published in isolated communist-era Albania, looks back on a career marked by struggles and strange surprises. “You on ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

“[Albania] was called the North Korea of Europe,” she recalled of her childhood in communism, widely regarded as one of the harshest dictatorships among former communist bloc countri ...

TIRANA – In the heart of the capital, the villa of Albania’s former dictator welcomes ... role in helping transform the home of former communist leader Enver Hoxha into a chic new residency.

Second, in the violent build-up and aftermath of communism's collapse in the 1990s, 710,000 citizens – 20% of the population – fled Albania from 1989 to 2001 in search of work in other countries.

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 ...