Ramiz Alia, the last communist President of Albania, is pictured in Tirana, in this September 2006 photo. Alia, the hand-picked successor of Albania's late Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha and the man who presided over the Balkan country's transition to multi-party democracy, died on October 7, 2011, aged 85. Doctors told Albanian television he died of a pulmonary embolism. REUTERS/Arben Celi (ALBANIA - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)