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Retired sergeant Neim Shehaj spends his days repairing a Soviet-era submarine, a witness to Albania’s tumultuous communist past that is now rusting, half-submerged, at...
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Retired sergeant Neim Shehaj spends his days repairing a Soviet-era submarine, a witness to Albania’s tumultuous communist past that is now rusting, half-submerged, at...
In an Albanian city once named for Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, dozens of Soviet- and Chinese-made planes rust in the open air.
Albania's communist-era bunkers were meant to withstand a nuclear strike, but decades later the fortifications are devoured by the sea.
Pandemic stress, the focus on faces during video chats and the convenience of hiding under a mask are fuelling a cosmetic surgery boom in...
At age 15, Elsidita Selaj decided she wanted to box. Through sheer stubbornness she has succeeded, breaking down her family’s resistance and sexist attitudes...
From Christianity and Islam to animal sacrifices and pagan charms, Albanians have all their spiritual bases covered when crisis hits. At the sprawling mountain-top...
At the bottom of her garden, mother-of-five Vitore Lufi makes raki, a fruit brandy celebrated by Albanians and especially welcome this autumn to lift...
With mountains of chromite piling sky high on the docks of the port behind him in the Albanian city of Durres, logistics manager Henri...
Her face swollen and arms darkened by bruises, Ana’s eyes dart anxiously around her flat in eastern Albania, where she is trapped with a...
Snaking beneath a fortress in southern Albania, a covert tunnel network built during the communist era captures the secrecy and paranoia that defined the...