Rilindja Demokratike
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Rilindja Demokratike on 6 November 2013
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| Type | Daily Newspaper |
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| Format | Berliner |
| Owner(s) | Democratic Party of Albania |
| Editor-in-chief | Bledi Kasmi |
| Founded | 5 January 1991 |
| Political alignment | Part of Democratic Party of Albania |
| Language | Albanian |
| Headquarters | Tirana |
| Circulation |
Present: 3.000 (2014) Record: 125.000 (1991) |
| Website | Rilindja Demokratike |
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. 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. RD still preserve the same values as on its first day of publication and is one of the most respected newspapers of the Albanian media, this is because its first issue was actually the first free media coverage in 46 years. RD was also the first media in Albania that openly criticized the regime of Enver Hoxha.
RD still helds the record of most published newspaper in Albania, with a circulation of 125.000 copies in 1991. Together with Gazeta 55 it is the only right winged news paper, but RD is considered the main opposition newspaper.
Huge political reforms took place in Albania, and the Communist regime in power was forced to allow small opposition groups in its political system. After the fall of communism in Albania the Democratic Party (DP) on 11 December 1990 no free media was published in Albania. On 5 January 1991 the first issue of RD was published in Albania, ordered by Sali Berisha, at that leader of the DP. RD started to function against the state newspaper Zëri i Popullit what was the newspaper of the Communist Party and nowadays of the Socialist Party. Even after the creation of the first free media in Albania, the left winged media continued to criticize RD and considered this newspaper of an "enemy of the party."
In the beginning, RD was published twice a week, but was later converted to a daily newspaper. The circulation of the paper was in the beginning around 70-100 thousand copies, while people interested in the newspaper had to wait in lines to get a copy. Its 2005 circulation was 10,000 copies, making it the third most read daily in the country. In the first numbers RD oriented to the values of freedom, democracy, free market and anti-self-understanding. There were left pages to former politically persecuted and former owners, who by this action got for the first time in history a voice in the country.
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