1.   Albania is slowly recovering from months of turmoil that followed the collapse of dodgy investment schemes in which many Albanians lost their life savings.

2.   Civil unrest has plagued Albanian since late January, when a string of dodgy high-risk investment schemes collapsed.

3.   Many other dodgy investment schemes also went belly-up.

4.   Tens of thousands of Macedonians who lost fortunes in dodgy investment schemes rallied in Skopje on Thursday to demand that the government step down.