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	HU OSA 205-4-10
Fonds 205:	Records of the Open Media Research Institute
Subfonds 4:	Information Services Department
Series 10:	Albanian Subject Files

Date(s) 1970-1997

Extent and medium 1 Archival boxes, 0.13 linear meters

Administrative/Biographical history

• HU OSA 205C Open Media Research Institute
• HU OSA 205-4C Information Services Department

Scope and content

The series contains press clippings from Albanian and Kosovo press, news agencies releases and occasionally printed materials. Politics, economics, foreign relations and social issues are the most frequently monitored topics. The most extensive files cover the Albanian Communist Party, Albanians in Kosovo and Macedonia, foreign policy, the political and social situation in Albania during 1994-1997.
The files include materials collected and filed by Louis Zanga who worked at the RFE/RL Research Institute in 1961-1973 on a freelance basis and in 1984 was hired to launch Albanian language broadcasts. Since 1985 he worked on a contract basis as a Research Analyst. Besides preparation of weekly and daily papers on Albanian affairs his responsibilities included the maintenance of the Albanian, Kosovar and Macedonian archive. These materials were later incorporated into the centralized East European Archives at the Research Institute. Some of the files were transferred to OMRI. He also worked at Voice of America in 1958-1993 first as a staff member of the Albanian language service, and later as Munich stringer for the Albanian service. Some of the VOA materials related to Albania now comprise part of the Albanian Subject Files.

Accruals Not expected

System of arrangement

• Arranged by subject title according to the Latin alphabet

Language/scripts of material

Albanian, English, French, German, Italian (Mostly Albanian)

Finding aids

• 1 container

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-10-2 Yugoslav Subject Files I, 1943-1994
• HU OSA 300-10-3 Yugoslav Subject Files II, 1951-1985
• HU OSA 205-3-2 Transitions, 1997-1998
• HU OSA 205-3-1 Transition, 1994-1997
• HU OSA 300-10-1 Albanian Subject Files, 1962-1990
• HU OSA 205-4-80 Yugoslav Subject Files from the RFE/RL Research Institute, 1950-1995
• HU OSA 205-4-121 Kosovo Subject files, 1989-1997
• HU OSA 205-4-122 Kosovo Biographical Files, 1993-1996
• HU OSA 205-4-11 Albanian Biographical Files, 1991-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-4 RFE/RL Research Reports, 1992-1993
• HU OSA 205-3-7 OMRI Daily Digest in English, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-10 OMRI Analytical Brief, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-3-11 Pursuing Balkan Peace, 1996-1997
• HU OSA 205-2-80 Draft Research Papers (electronic)

Date(s) of descriptions

Processed and described by Irida Tase; revised by Olga Zaslavskaya, 1 October 2003
Online version updated 19 April 2012