Yll Rugova

Yll Rugova (born 1984) is one of two deputy Ministers for Culture in Kosovo. He is a political activist, information designer and typographer[1] from Kosovo. As a political and social activist, he is known as one of the founders of the Strong Party[2] and initiator of a series of political and social events in Kosovo, including the 2013 protests against KEK in Pristina.[3] In 2014 he was a candidate for Partia e Fortë during national elections.[4]

He is a lecturer of graphic design at the University for Business and Technology in Pristina. In 2005 together with Visar Arifaj co-founded the communication agency Trembelat.[5] Together with Arifaj, and other activists and artists from Kosovo he founded the satirical political party Strong Party. In 2013 the party won one seat in the local elections for the local assembly of the capital Pristina. He is also actively engaged as an outspoken atheist, publishing articles and debating with religious conservatives on national and regional media. He was claimed as "the pope of atheism in Kosovo" by the national newspaper Gazeta Express.

Yll appears frequently in national and international media and engages in public debates on politics of Kosovo and Albania.[6][7][8]

Activities

Interviews and articles
gollark: It has a standard library. It's just really bad.
gollark: I mean, they're "green threads", not native OS threads.
gollark: They aren't *threads*.
gollark: Nope, coroutines.
gollark: In Java/Python/etc they're also in the standard library and nothing in the basic language spec, as far as I know, says "and also there are threads".

References
  1. "True to type | Design Indaba". Design Indaba. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  2. "TEDxTirana | TED.com". TED. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  3. "Did you pay your power bill this month?". archive.kosovotwopointzero.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  4. Partia e Fortë garon me 64 kandidatë për deputetë, Telegrafi 2014
  5. "Public lecture and exhibition | Designing Content | Peet Pienaar (South African Republic) and NORM (Switzerland)". www.presstoexit.org.mk. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  6. "'A Reckoning Hasn't Happened'". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
  7. KlanKosova (2016-04-14), Info Magazine – Osman Musliu, Yll Rugova – 14.04.2016 – Klan Kosova, retrieved 2017-05-10
  8. Rrokum TV (2015-03-18), Ylli Rugova, iniciatori i protestave qytetare kunder KEK, retrieved 2017-05-10
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