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 Rilindja Demokratike on 6 November 2013 | |
| Type | Daily Newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Democratic Party of Albania |
| Editor-in-chief | Bledi Kasmi |
| Founded | 5 January 1991 [1] |
| Political alignment | Part of Democratic Party of Albania |
| Language | Albanian |
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| Circulation | Present: 3.000 (2014)[2] Record: 125.000 (1991)[3] |
| Website | rdnews |
Rilindja Demokratike (English: Democratic Rebirth and short RD) is an Albanian newspaper founded and continuously published in Tirana. Rilindja Demokratike is the official newspaper of the Democratic Party of Albania.[2] Its chief editor is Bledi Kasmi. Its first publication was on 5 January 1991 and was the first free newspaper since the Fall of communism in Albania, while it functioned against the state newspaper Zëri i Popullit what was the newspaper of the Communist Party and nowadays of the Socialist Party.[4] RD was also the first media in Albania that openly criticized the regime of Enver Hoxha[5]
RD still holds the record of most published newspaper in Albania, with a circulation of 125.000 copies in 1991.[3] Together with Gazeta 55 it is the only right winged news paper, but RD is considered the main opposition newspaper.[6]
- ^ [1] Archived July 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b "Albania: The Cost of Speech: Violations of Media Freedom in Albania" (PDF). Human Rights Watch (HRW) (June 2002). Vol. 14, No. 5 (D).
- ^ a b "Frrok Çupi: Shtypi i pavarur, ka qenë një legjendë". Noa. 5 January 2012.
- ^ Elez Biberaj (1999). Albania in transition: the rocky road to democracy. Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-3688-6. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
- ^ Robert Elsie: Albanian print free, not TV or radio, Nieman Reports 50.2 (Summer 1996), p.78
- ^ Albania's Second Transition; Borchgrevink, Aage