Rilindja Demokratike

Rilindja Demokratike
Democratic Rebirth
Rilindja Demokratike on 6 November 2013
TypeDaily Newspaper
FormatBerliner
Owner(s)Democratic Party of Albania
Editor-in-chiefBledi Kasmi
Founded5 January 1991 (1991-01-05)
Political alignmentPart of Democratic Party of Albania
LanguageAlbanian
HeadquartersTirana
CirculationPresent: 3.000 (2014)
Record: 125.000 (1991)
Websiterdnews.al

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 was also the first media in Albania that openly criticized the regime of Enver Hoxha

RD still holds 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.