The issue of national identity is taken seriously by Balkan people – including the least serious among them.
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Communist era living room. Photo:MOKO Tirana
Museum Brings Lost World of Albanian Communism Alive
Tirana | 17 March 2010 | By Besar Likmeta
A display of ordinary objects that Albanians have long since lost sight off aims to shed light on everyday life in the Communist era.
Comedy Stand
Curtain Yet to Raise on Kosovo’s Stand-up Comedy
Pristina | 09 March 2010 | Petrit Collaku
While stand-up comedy and searing political satire have become part of the mainstream media in many countries, in Kosovo it’s difficult to get comedians to even to talk about their art, let alone get them on stage.
St. Nichilas Church, Pristina
Life Returns to St Nicholas Church, Pristina
Pristina | 26 February 2010 | Shega A'MulaPristina’s St Nicholas Church is not as easily spotted as the city’s many lofty minarets, but continues to survive, despite its discrete location and the substantial fall in the city’s Orthodox population.
Artists Take Kosovo's Isolation Worries to EU's Heart
Pristina | 01 March 2010 | Shengjyl Osmani
White Wedding, an exhibition exploring Kosovo’s fears of exclusion from Europe, aims to alert the public and the bureaucrats in Brussels to their concerns.
Albania’s Famous Bunkers May Become Holiday Homes
Tirana | 24 February 2010 | By Besar Likmeta
Enver Hoxha would turn in his grave; two young architects plan to turn his beloved concrete pillboxes – built to repel a NATO invasion – into eateries and hostels.
Vlora Boulevard
Former Sex Slaves Face Uphill Struggle in Albania
Vlora | 20 January 2010 | By Besar Likmeta
Specialised centres are doing fine work in helping the youthful victims of traffickers escape lives of prostitution. But inevitably, their efforts are not always crowned with success.
Pristina
Calls to Commemorate Pristina’s Forgotten Bard
Pristina | 29 December 2009 | By Rina KrasniqiYoung people are rediscovering the haunting poetry of the long neglected poet, Mirko Gashi, through a Facebook page recently established in his honour
Fadil Vokrri meeting Michel Platini
Political Football For Kosovo's International Team
Pristina | 02 December 2009 | Lawrence Marzouk
Kosovo Football Association head Fadil Vokrri won legions of fans across ex-Yugoslavia while playing for Belgrade’s FK Partizan. But even he could not bring the sporting bodies of Serbia and Kosovo together to discuss ending the new-born country’s international football isolation.
Pristina
Returnees Leave Kosovo with Post-Independence Blues
Pristina | 25 November 2009 | By Besiana Xharra
The euphoria of independence, just 18 months ago, seems to have faded to anger and despair for some Kosovo Albanians. Facing economic hardship, a struggling education system and fading hopes for the future, many of those who fled to the West during the years’ of repressions are picking up their passports and leaving.
An underwater column discovered in Montenegro
Montenegro’s Hidden Historical Treasures
| 06 November 2009 | Lawrence MarzoukIn 2003, archaeologists Louise Schofield and Sean Kingsley described Montenegro as both a “dream and a nightmare”.
