Mirdita

"Shkoder suffered very much in the first years of communism, especially from 1956 to 1960, when the city was like a communist prison," the historian and curator of the Site of Witness and Memory Museum, Pjerin Mirdita, told BIRN.

The historian and curator of the Site of Witness and Memory Museum, Pjerin Mirdita, shows visitors some documents. Photo: BIRN/Madalin Necsutu.

Hunters bragging about killing wild rabbits in snowy parts of Albania have become a hit on social media in the last days of December and the first days of 2016.

None of these hunters can be unaware of the fact that their shoots are totally illegal.

All hunting in Albania was banned for two years in 2014 and the moratorium does not run out until March.

Culture Minister Ivan Tasovac on Thursday in Belgrade opened a festival dubbed "Mirdita, Dobar Dan," that showcases works of artists from Kosovo.

Expressing his satisfaction because of the opportunity to declare the festival open, Tasovac in his address recounted attending "an unusual cultural event recently."