People pay their respect at the coffin of Ramiz Alia, the last communist President of Albania, in Tirana October 9, 2011. 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. REUTERS/Arben Celi (ALBANIA - Tags: POLITICS OBITUARY)