Illegal construction has been rife in Albania since the fall of communism in 1990 ... More than 14,000 buildings were damaged and engineers were still determining which ones are structurally ...

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has ...

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 ...

Albania has launched a nationwide drive to ... The cemeteries were built and maintained by the postwar communist authorities. They were made a focal point of the official glorification of the ...

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 ...

Today, Albania is experiencing a tourism renaissance ... that said we were the only country in the world that is building true communism and that we were the shining star,” Koco says.

(CN) – The small Balkan nation of Albania is shedding new light on its dark past: This year international experts are expected to begin exhuming and identifying the remains of victims of the country’s ...