(Photo by Armando Babani/Getty Images) Albania was once a socialist backwater with just 1,265 cars in the whole country. And though living standards have improved considerably since that time ...

Corruption charges against a former MP of the ruling Socialist Party represent a case study in the transactional relationship between organised crime and politics in Albania, a relationship with ...

In truth, we knew nothing at all about Albania, we merely projected our socialist utopian longings onto the country where Hoxha ruled from 1946 to 1985. The truth was that Albanians lived in a ...