Tirana's artist mayor turns crumbling capital into painters' canvas
Before and after: a block of flats in Tirana. Photo by Timo Arnall. What to do with a city full of grim, high-rise flats? That was the dilemma that - like many post-Soviet cities - the Albanian capital...
View ArticleA decade living in squalid camps for the Roma of Mitrovica
One of our Observers in Kosovo warns us about the sanitary conditions in the north of Mitrovica, home to a number of displaced Roma communities since the end of the conflict between Serbia and...
View ArticleAlbania’s bunkers transformed into local amenities
Bunker turned beachside restaurant. Photo posted on Flickr by Adnan Asllani. For every four Albanians, there is one mushroom-shaped bunker. They were built to protect Europe's poorest country from a...
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