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Residence permit
In October 2021, it became known that Albania will issue a residence permit for real estate investments. The parliament of the republic amended the law "On Foreigners," thanks to which investors will be able to issue a residence permit.
A residence permit for a period of one year with the right to extend is offered to citizens of third countries upon the purchase of residential real estate. It is not necessary to own the object completely. Enough 50 percent share.
Previously, real estate did not guarantee the rights to a residence permit, stronger reasons were needed (work, study, etc.).
The cost of housing in the country is low (from EUR 30,000), and the cost of living is comparable to Russian (about RUB 32,000 per month per person).
You can extend the residence permit only 5 times while maintaining all investments. You can apply for citizenship after five years of permanent residence in the country and after passing the language exam.
Parliament
2022: Proportion of women in Parliament
Armed Forces
2023: Defence spending - 1.9% of GDP
Economy of Albania
Main article: Economy of Albania
Medicine and Health Care
2022: Rapid influx of foreigners for plastic surgery and dentistry procedures
In 2022, Albania has a rapid influx of foreigners choosing the Balkan country to undergo various plastic surgery procedures, including breast augmentation, rhinoplasty and liposuction.
According to forecasts of experts from local clinics, based on information on the level of consumer activity in the first months of 2022, in general, by the end of this year, the demand for such procedures will grow by about 30% compared to 2021.
For example, representatives of the local Dermolife clinic noted that while the subjects of most other sectors of the Albanian economy are facing crisis phenomena, observing fairly low levels of demand and consumption, the plastic surgery sector, on the contrary, is on the rise.
According to Albanian doctors, many clients of local plastic surgery clinics come from the USA, Italy, Britain, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Clinics additionally report increased demand from local residents (Albanians), as well as residents of Switzerland, Germany, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Thus, The Da Vinci clinic in Tirana reported that at that time 60% of its clients are foreigners, and 40% are Albanians living in a Balkan country or abroad.
The Da Vinci Clinic additionally noted a 23% year-on-year increase in aesthetic surgeries in the first 7 months of 2022. Other popular treatments among foreigners are hair transplants, gastric banding and liposuction. There is a lot of interest in Botox and fillers.
Over the past two years, Albania has also become a leading regional destination for dental tourism. Many local clinics today offer package offers including flights, accommodation and direct dental services.
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2018: 7.9% of women smoke tobacco
Education
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Religion
2022: 22.7% of the population believes in life after death
Nationalism
"Albanian Third Position"
The Albanian Third Position is a neo-Nazi association promoting "Albanian traditionalism," which hides the ideology of "Greater Albania" at its most radical. "We do not want two or more Albanian states, we want to centralize power and form a single Great Albanian Nation," the organization writes on its resources. These resources are full of fascist symbols.
During the Second World War, Balli Kombotar (translated from Albanian "Popular Front") openly collaborated with the Nazis, participated in the burning of villages in Serbia, Greece and Macedonia. The ideologists of the organization argued that Albanians are "Aryan Illyrians" - the highest race that should establish dominance in the Balkans and "free themselves from oppression" by the Slavs and Greeks. In April 1944, Balli Kombötar entered the infamous 21st SS Volunteer Division Skanderbeg and staged a mass massacre of the Serbian population, which significantly affected the ethnic composition of Kosovo and Metohija.
Since 2019, the Albanian Third Position has been actively recruiting like-minded people on social networks (and campaigning is also conducted in English), at the same time the group's contacts with neo-Nazi associations in Europe have become much more frequent.
On February 25, 2022, the day after the start of the special operation of Russia, a militant from Elbasan was liquidated in Ukraine. How was he so quickly in the right place at the right time? Very simple. Back in early February 2022, the Ukrainian ambassador to Albania boasted that many Albanians were worried about the pressing issue "how to get to the front," and the diplomatic mission was ready to help them.
In 2023, information appeared that a group of Albanian militants from Syria went to Ukraine, who fought on the side of the terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) banned in the Russian Federation. Sources did not specify the number of Albanians who left Idlib, but reported their belonging to the group led by a certain Abu Katada al-Albani. It was about the Jemati Alban division.
In April 2024, another Albanian militant, 20-year-old Kevare Kekic, was eliminated in the battles near Avdeevka.
Crime
2023: Arrest of a gang of Albanian robbers in Spain
In January 2023, a gang of robbers from Albania was detained, credited with twenty robberies in homes located in areas with high purchasing power in the mountainous regions of Madrid and Salamanca, Valladolid and Avila.
The criminal group consisted of three men and a woman between the ages of 29 and 31, who had clearly distributed functions when committing robberies, according to the General Directorate of the Civil Guard.
The investigation began in October last year, when an increase in the number of robberies was found in mountainous areas of Madrid. The authors' modus operandi led agents to link them to other attacks recorded in the municipalities of Salamanca, Valladolid and Ávila.
According to the investigation, the criminals entered the plots, broke the locks, got inside the houses, where they tried to take possession of all kinds of values that they found in their path.
Two of the three people in the gang were the ones who hacked and accessed the chalet, while a third man carried out surveillance from the vehicle. The woman, for her part, was responsible for transporting the stolen items to Albania, a country where she came once a month with suitcases full of jewelry and other items left over from the attacks.
At the moment, gang participation has been established in about twenty robberies committed in the Madrid municipalities of Guadarrama, Collado Villalba, Galapagar, Collado Mediano, El Escorial, Las Rosas, Mahadaonda and Rivas Wasiamadrid, as well as in the cities of Salamanca, Valladolid and Avila.
The Civil Guard conducted two searches of the houses of the bandits, in the Madrid city of Leganes and in the metropolitan area of Salamanca, where they seized about 10,000 euros in cash, as well as jewelry and other valuables. The four detainees were placed at the disposal of the judiciary, which ordered their detention pending trial.
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History
2022: Severing diplomatic relations with Iran
On September 7, 2022, the government of Edi Rama accused Iran of organizing a cyber attack on Albanian state services and ordered all employees of the Iranian diplomatic mission to leave the country within 24 hours. On September 8, searches of the anti-terrorist unit of the Albanian special services were carried out in the empty embassy building.
Earlier on July 15, the servers of several state-owned enterprises in Albania were disabled, and there was a massive data leak. According to employees of the information security agency, this happened as a result of a "synchronized criminal attack from abroad." And on September 8, the Albanian authorities publicly accused Iran of both organizing a hacker attack and financing various groups that became its perpetrators. And they announced the breakdown of all ties with the Islamic Republic.
This is the first time in history that an alleged cyber attack entailed such decisive measures. In Tehran, they have already been called "a rash and short-sighted step in the international arena." However, the attack on the Albanian public sector apparently became only a reason. Relations between the two countries have been difficult for a long time - tension has previously spilled into diplomatic scandals.
For example, in 2018, Albanian authorities accused Iran of trying to organize a terrorist attack during the Israel-Albania football match as part of the qualifying round for the World Cup. Evidence was never provided, but two Iranian diplomats, including the ambassador, were then expelled from the country.
What is the reason for the tension? Ten years ago, under pressure > [US]], Albanians agreed to shelter members of the opposition Mojaheddin-e Khalq (MEK) movement, which was recognized as terrorist in Iran. In the United States, it was also added to the list of terrorist organizations in 1997, but was excluded from it in 2012. And since then they have been used as another tool to destabilize Iran.
Now the headquarters of MEK is located in the Albanian capital - the so-called "Tirana Camp." More than two thousand militants live on its territory, who boast close ties to other radical groups in the region. They receive support and funding from Saudi Arabia and the Americans. For example, in May 2022, during a visit to the camp, the intention to continue to maintain the "legitimate power" of Iran was expressed by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In addition, according to available information, MEK cooperates with the Israeli special services. Albanians have already stated that the goal of the Iranian cyber attack could be to pressure the authorities to achieve the cancellation of the Free Iran conference, which is held annually by MEK in Tirana.
Will the Albanian economy suffer from severing diplomatic ties with Iran to please its Western backers? Hardly, experts say the telegram channel "Rybar." Import and export volumes have been rapidly declining over the past five years. Unlike the neighboring one, Serbia with which Iran increased by as much as 115% in 2021 alone.
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39,280 hp: Ash from the mega-eruption of the Phlegrean fields
The earliest activity of the Flegrei Fields supervolcano in southern Italy began about 39,280 years ago and was accompanied by a powerful volcanic eruption and the release into the atmosphere of about 200 km³[1] volcanic material].
The mega-eruption coincided in time with the eruptions of the volcanoes Kazbek in the Caucasus and St. Anna in the Southern Carpathians. According to seismologists and paleoclimatologists, it became one of the reasons for the "volcanic winter."
Sulfur has increased over Europe, absorbing and scattering sunlight. In the year following the eruption, temperatures across the planet dropped by 2 degrees Celsius, with a 5-degree decline in Western Europe.
Volcanic emissions, gradually settling, left behind a trail of rock that, in the shape of a wedge, stretched from southern Italy northeast to the Southern Urals.
The rock covered more than 1.1 million square meters with an ash layer. From southern Italy to Romania, the ash layer reached 1 meter.
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2022: The most popular sport is football
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