Why Did They Cut My Warning on Rama and Serbia?

Albanian television censored my warning: Rama’s foreign policy empowers Serbia’s Kremlin-aligned threats to Kosovo. Silence here is complicity.

In the small but ever-volatile ecosystem of Albanian television, last night’s episode of Re-Politix, anchored by Denis Minga, will stand as a troubling exemplar of editorial cowardice masquerading as journalism.

Broadcast from Tirana yet featuring a recorded segment from Kyiv, where I, alongside British colleagues, was preparing evacuation protocols amid the looming threat of Moscow’s retaliation, the programme aired an interview I granted as a professional courtesy¹. It was offered under one simple condition: that it would faithfully inform Albanians of the serious geopolitical risks unfolding around them.

It did not.

The interview, recorded at 15:00 Kyiv time, contained a critical warning: that psychological warfare targeting Albanians extends beyond national borders, reaching deep into Kosovo, and that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama, now firmly entrenched in his fourth term, has, through a series of foreign policy decisions, positioned himself not as a defender of regional stability…