Rilindja (newspaper)

Logo of "Rilindja"

Rilindja newspaper, English: Renaissance, is a Kosovo Albanian newspaper.

History

It came out first on February 12, weekly, 1945 in Prizren, and was the first newspaper in Albanian language inside Yugoslavia. It was initially printed in State Printing Shop in Prizren during the issues 1 to 60. Since issue 61 it was printed in Prishtina Regional Printing House of the People's Front.^[1]

In the beginning, it had only four pages, being published weekly until June 27, 1948. After that it begins to come twice a week, on Sundays and Thursdays. Then, from November 1958 starts out as a daily paper (beside Fridays). By the year 1964 it appears every day in a 20 page standard format, while on Saturdays and holidays in a 24-32 page format. On September 5, 1990, the Serbian government banned its publication, while the entry of NATO forces, on June 12, 1999 it appears again, but this time with additional pages and some of them in color.^[1]

It was undoubtedly one of the major sold newspapers on the Albanian sphere. Its maximum circulation has arrives during New Year holidays, up to 234,000 copies.

In 2002, the premises were blocked by UNMIK administration and listed as a property of Kosovo Agency of Privatization, shutting it down abruptly.^[2]

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