The deal to decommission Syria’s chemical weapons did not calm its civil war, but it brought gas masks and a new civic spirit onto the streets of Albania.
The small Balkan country was recently named as a possible destination for the banned munitions, which have to be removed from Syria this year.
United in their opposition to the plan, thousands of Albanians - middle-class families, students, hipsters and conservative Muslims - came together in the capital, Tirana.
Their pr...
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