Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis survived a motion of censure Sunday night initiated by the main opposition leader and former premier Alexis Tsipras following criticism of the government’s ...
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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Greece’s Premier Survives Snowstorm-Induced Censure Motion
Greek PM survives confidence vote called over snowstorm response
Kyriakos Mitsotakis stays in post despite public outrage after thousands became stranded on motorway The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has won a confidence vote called by the main opposition over his government’s handling of a snowstorm last week that stranded thousands of people on a motorway and drew public outrage. The conservative government, which has a comfortable majority in the 300-seat parliament, won with 156 votes, meeting the 151-vote threshold required. Continue reading...
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Distribution of ‘Made in Turkiye’ COVID masks in Greek parliament stirs debate among deputies: Report
Distribution of “Made in Turkiye” COVID-19 masks in the Greek parliament stirred a debate among lawmakers, according to media reports on Saturday. At the beginning of her speech at the parliament, ...
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The Top Ten Greek Wines of 2021
Greek wines are famously considered some of the best in the world, and Greece is home to a number of varieties found only in the country.
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Greek zoo park founder sends New Year wishes, seeks collaboration with China
On the occasion of the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Tiger, the founder of Attica Zoological Park in Greece sent wishes to Chinese people and called for bilateral cooperation. Located near the Athens ...
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Australia Warns Kayne West to Get Vaccinated Before Tour
Kanye West must be fully vaccinated if he wants to tour in Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison stated on Saturday. Morrison’s statement came after sources close to the controversial rapper announced that he would likely tour in Australia in March of 2022. “The rules are you have to be fully vaccinated. They apply to everybody, […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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New Greek restaurant opening in Fulton Market District
Rooted in the Mediterranean ethos of wellness, the restaurant will bring fresh, holistic fare to Chicago diners in an earthy, indoor-meets-outdoor space, its owners said.
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Greek destroyer Kountouriotis (H07)
Kountouriotis (Greek: ΒΠ Κουντουριώτης) was a Greek destroyer of the Kountouriotis class, which served with the Hellenic Navy during the Second World War. It was named after the admiral and politician ...
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New Fulton Market District restaurant will feature fresh, holistic Greek food
CHICAGO (WLS) -- DineAmic Hospitality will unveil its Greek concept, Lyra, at the bustling corner of Peoria and Fulton streets. Rooted in the Mediterranean ethos of wellness, the restaurant will ...
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Feature: Greek teacher inspires students with large mechanical pencil collection
Greek mathematics teacher Nikos Kampanis has his own way to inspire his students: by creating a unique mechanical pencil. As a mechanical pencil lover, he now owns a collection of over 5,000 such ...
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Deltacron: Much Ado About Nothing?
... a local GREEK TV that he has sequenced with his team several genomes of the coronavirus that have elements of the Omicron and Delta variants.
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January is National Oatmeal Month
GREEK Yogurt Oatmeal. Ingredients. 1/2 cup old fashioned oats. 1/2 banana -- sliced (optional). Pinch of sea salt.
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Descendants remember GREEK-Turkish population exchange
"The lives of Turks were in danger in Crete after the War of Independence in Turkey. A GREEK man alerted the people of my grandparents' village about ...
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Famine, subjugation and nuclear fallout: How Soviet experience helped sow resentment among Ukrainians toward Russia
Ukraine and Russia share a great deal in the way of history and culture – indeed for long periods in the past, the neighboring countries were part of larger empires encompassing both territories. But that history – especially during the Soviet period from 1922 to 1991, in which Ukraine was absorbed into the communist bloc – has also bred resentment. Opinions of the merits of the Soviet Union and its leaders diverge, with Ukrainians far less likely to view the period favorably than Russians. Nonetheless, President Vladimir Putin continues to claim Soviet foundations for what he sees as “historical Russia” – an entity that includes Ukraine. As scholars of that history, we believe that an examination of Soviet-era policies in Ukraine can offer a useful lens for understanding why so many Ukrainians harbor deep resentment toward Russia. STALIN’S ENGINEERED FAMINE Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, Ukraine was known as the breadbasket of Europe and later of the Soviet Union. Its rich soil and ample fields made it an ideal place to grow the grain that helped feed the entire continent. After Ukraine was absorbed into the Soviet Union beginning in 1922, its agriculture was subject to collectivization policies, in which private land was taken over by the Soviets to be worked communally. Anything produced on those lands would be redistributed across the union. In 1932 and 1933, a famine devastated the Soviet Union as a result of aggressive collectivization coupled with poor harvests. [Dead and dying horses near a collective farm in the Ukraine.] A deliberate famine? Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Millions starved to death across the Soviet Union, but Ukraine felt the brunt of this horror. Research estimates that some 3 million to 4 million Ukrainians died of the famine, around 13% of the population, though the true figure is impossible to establish because of Soviet efforts to hide the famine and its toll. Scholars note that many of the political decisions of the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin – such as preventing Ukrainian farmers from traveling in search of food, and severely punishing anyone who took produce from collective farms – made the famine much worse for Ukrainians. These policies were specific to Ukrainians within Ukraine, as well as Ukrainians who lived in other parts of the Soviet Union. Some historians claim that Stalin’s moves were done to quash a Ukrainian independence movement and were specifically targeted at ethnic Ukrainians. As such, some scholars call the famine a genocide. In Ukrainian, the event is known as “Holodomor,” which means “death by hunger.” Recognition of the full extent of the Holodomor and implicating Soviet leadership for the deaths remains an important issue in Ukraine to this day, with the country’s leaders long fighting for global recognition of the Holodomor and its impact on modern Ukraine. Countries such as the United States and Canada have made official declarations calling it a genocide. But this is not the case in much of the rest of the world. Just as the the Soviet government of the day denied that there were any decisions that explicitly deprived Ukraine of food – noting that the famine affected the entire country – so too do present-day Russian leaders refuse to acknowledge culpability. Russia’s refusal to admit that the famine disproportionately affected Ukrainians has been taken by many in Ukraine as an attempt to downplay Ukrainian history and national identity. SOVIET ANNEXATION OF WESTERN UKRAINE This attempt to suppress Ukrainian national identity continued during and after World War II. In the early years of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian national movement was concentrated in the western parts of modern-day Ukraine, part of Poland until the Nazi invasion in 1939. Before Gemany’s invasion, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany entered into a secret agreement, under the guise of the Molotov-Ribbentrop nonaggression pact, which outlined German and Soviet spheres of influence over parts of central and east Europe. [Cartoon shows Adolf Hitler greeting Joseph Stalin with the words 'The scum of the Earth, I believe?' with Stalin replying, 'Bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?'] David Low’s famed cartoon depicting Stalin and Hitler’s pact over Poland. David Low/British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent After Germany invaded Poland, the Red Army moved into the eastern portion of the country under the pretense of stabilizing the failing nation. In reality, the Soviet Union was taking advantage of the provisions laid out in the secret protocol. The Polish territories that now make up western Ukraine were also incorporated into Soviet Ukraine and Belarus, subsuming them into the larger Russian cultural world. At the end of the war, the territories remained part of the Soviet Union. Stalin set about suppressing Ukrainian culture in these newly annexed lands in favor of a greater Russian culture. For example, the Soviets repressed any Ukrainian intellectuals who promoted the Ukrainian language and culture through censorship and imprisonment. This suppression also included liquidating the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, a self-governing church that has allegiance to the pope and was one of the most prominent cultural institutions promoting Ukrainian language and culture in these former Polish territories. Its properties were transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and many of its priests and bishops were imprisoned or exiled. The destruction of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is still a source of resentment for many Ukrainians. It stands, we believe as scholars, as a clear instance of the Soviets’ intentional efforts to destroy Ukrainian cultural institutions. THE LEGACY OF CHERNOBYL IN UKRAINE Just as disaster marked the early years of Ukraine as a Soviet republic, so did its final years. In 1986 a nuclear reactor at the Soviet-run Chernobyl nuclear power in the north of Ukraine went into partial meltdown. It remains the worst peacetime nuclear catastrophe the world has seen. It required the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people in the areas surrounding the power plant. And to this day, approximately 1,000 square miles of Ukraine are part of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, where radioactive fallout remains high and access is restricted. Soviet lies to cover up the extent of the disaster – and missteps that would have limited the fallout – only compounded the problem. Emergency personnel were not given proper equipment or training to deal with the nuclear material. It resulted in a heavy death toll and a higher than normal incidence of radiation-induced disease and complications such as cancer and birth defects among both former residents of the region and the workers sent in to deal with the disaster. Other Soviet republics and European countries faced the fallout from Chernobyl, but it was the authorities in Ukraine who were tasked with organizing evacuations to Kyiv while Moscow attempted to cover up the scope of the disaster. [_Over 140,000 readers rely on The Conversation’s newsletters to understand the world._ Sign up today.] Meanwhile, independent Ukraine has been left to attend to the thousands of citizens who have chronic illnesses and disabilities as a result of the accident. [A derelict swing boat in an abandoned fun fair in front of a Ferris wheel.] An abandoned fun fair, two kilometers from the Chernobyl power station. Martin Godwin/Getty Images The legacy of Chernobyl looms large in Ukraine’s recent past and continues to define many people’s memory of living in the Soviet era. MEMORIES OF A PAINFUL PAST This painful history of life under Soviet rule forms the backdrop to resentment in Ukraine today toward Russia. To many Ukrainians, these are not merely stories from textbooks, but central parts of people’s lives – many Ukrainians are still living with the health and environmental consequences of Chernobyl, for instance. As Russia amasses troops at Ukraine’s borders, and the threat of an invasion increases, many in Ukraine may be reminded of past attempts by its neighbor to crush Ukrainian independence.[The Conversation] Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, _Harvard University_ and Jacob Lassin, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Russian and East European Studies, _Arizona State University_ This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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27 Photos That Will Make You Want To Pack Your Bags Visit This GREEK Island
Close your eyes and imagine an idyllic GREEK island, with its jugged coastline, turquoise sea, bougainvillea-fronted and white-washed houses… ok, ...
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Greek Winter Olympic delegation departs for Beijing
The organizers I'm sure have done an amazing job and I look forward to experiencing it all, to be the first to enter [the stadium] in the opening ceremony raising the colors of our country and I hope ...
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Albanian Origin Actor Dies in GREECE Car Crash
Albanian Origin Actor Dies in GREECE Car Crash. KRISTO KOTE Current Event Sunday, January 30, 2022. Well-known Albanian-Greek actor, Panos Natsis ...
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Turkey to continue to support Western Thrace Turks
GREECE'S Western Thrace region is home to a Muslim Turkish community of around 150,000. In 1983, the nameplate of the Xanthi Turkish Union was taken ...
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Remembering Virgil Abloh: Beyond the Runaway
GREEK Night By Jalien Edwards. GREEK Night By Jalien Edwards. GSU Basketball Game By Jalien Edwards. GREEK Night By Jalien Edwards ...
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Mark Mazower receives GREEK citizenship
Prominent British historian Mark Mazower attended a ceremony awarding him GREEK citizenship on Friday, during a visit to Athens to promote his new ...
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Amazon Prime Series “Greek Salad” to be Filmed in Athens
“Greek Salad,” an upcoming series from Amazon Prime France, will be set in Athens and filming will take place in the Greek capital for four months. The series is a sequel to the beloved French film “L’Auberge Espanole,” or “The Spanish Apartment,” which was released in 2002. The film follows a French Erasmus student in […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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After the blizzard, the big chill as East Coast digs out
Zack Andersen of Somerville skis off a jump built on the lawn of Dormition of the Virgin Mary GREEK Orthodox Church, during a storm that was ...
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IMMAF
The members of the Greek Olympic Union support the Panhellenic MMA Federation. They share the ideology that the principle of competition is always the same, no matter what discipline somebody ...
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Vaccines Are "Mark Of The Antichrist": Greek Holy Men's Message To Maskless Worshippers
In a remote monastery in northern Greece, an Orthodox abbot delivers a blunt message to dozens of his maskless worshippers: Covid-19 vaccines are "the mark of the Antichrist".
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Angelo Zegarelli Obituary
Angelo Zegarelli GREECE - Died peacefully surrounded by family on January 25, 2022: age 64. Predeceased by his father, Domenico Zegarelli, ...
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Maybe it's time to consider a permanent site for Olympics
Guest columnist Keith Peterson: At the first modern Summer Olympic Games in GREECE in 1896, GREECE'S King George I made a modest proposal.
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GREECE Has morerain, Storms, Snow Forecast For Weekend
GREECE has morerain, storms, snow forecast for weekend. By. Gct. 2 mins ago. Heavy rain and storms can be expected in central and southern parts ...
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The Golden era of learning Modern GREEK in Victoria
Based on this testimony, parents made their decisions regarding the best choice for their children's GREEK education. Some students benefited from the ...
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'Mark of the Antichrist': Greek holy men sow vaccine mistrust
In a remote monastery in northern Greece, an Orthodox abbot delivers a blunt message to dozens of his maskless worshippers: Covid-19 vaccines are "the mark of the Antichrist".
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'I couldn't stop shaking' Australia Day almost turns deadly after Funnel Web spider bite
Thousands of fish killed in GREECE snowstorm. 'Terrifying is the word . It was just absolutely horrible. I couldn't stop shaking.'.
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FICTION: SEEKING REFUGE IN HUMANITY
Refugees at the camp in Lesbos, GREECE, as they wait to be moved to Athens from where they will continue through Europe to seek asylum.
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Israel reports 53020 new COVID-19 cases, over 1000 in serious condition
January 30, 2022 Famagusta Gazette Turkey, Israel and GREECE 0. Israel reported 53,020 new COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total cases to ...
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Partial to Home: Christ Castanis, 1929 – 2022
Christ, with his prodigious memory, could have recounted in technicolor detail stories of GREEK culture here, the restaurants owned by GREEKS and ...
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Australian Open tennis 2022: Chair umpire perfect reply to Daniil Medvedev 'small cat' insult
You understand GREEK? Next time it should be a code violation. “If you don't, you are, how can I call it, a small cat.
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Beijing to be exemplary host city of 2022 Olympic Winter Games: Athens mayor
The Olympic flame for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is on display at the Olympic Tower in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 20, 2021.Beijing is a sister city of the Greek capital and its feat is a true testament to the city's commitment to the values of Olympism, he explained, congratulating the Chinese capital. Moreover, there is a profound bond between the two countries and civilizations, he added.
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Access to EU recovery funds gives GREEK companies a chance to compete
“In 2011, the GREEK banks would finance us with 10 per cent interest rates while our German competitors would borrow with less than 2 per cent,” ...
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Mitsotakis: Mazower Has Been Devoted To Firmly Placing GREEK History In Greater ...
Mitsotakis delivered a videotaped address for the presentation of the GREEK edition of “The GREEK Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe” ...
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Island Hopping in Greece this summer? Here’s What to do with one day in Rhodes, Greece!
Summer vacations in Greece bring a lot of unique experiences and memories to life. As I have traveled there many times to visit family and explore our home country, what it gives me is always ...
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Athletries: The Untold History of Ancient Greek Women Athletes
"From women bull-jumping in Minoan Crete and ancient Spartaùwhere girls wrestled in the nude alongside boysùto women competing in full armor in chariot races, this book presents ancient women as much ...
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Ash Barty's coach reveals a stunning US Open call
Astronomers predict a unique collision will soon take place in space. Thousands of fish killed in GREECE snowstorm. 0:54 ...
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The Must-See Ancient Greek Site of Amphipolis
Amphipolis, one of Greece’s many exceptional archaeological sites, was founded in 437 BC by the Athenians. Situated between the navigable Strymon River and Mount Paggaion, it became rich in the production of shipbuilding timber and precious metals. Not far from the sea, and at a crossroads of main land routes, it had many natural advantages. […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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EU commits 657 euro to first step in connecting Israel to European grid
The 898 km undersea line will link GREECE and Cyprus in the first step of the EuroAsia interconnector.
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GREECE battling weekend of storms and snow
A new storm front brought rain and thunderstorms early on Saturday in the west and north of GREECE and snowfall at high elevations.
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Kostas Sloukas's heroics lift depleted Olympiacos over AEK, Andy Rautins / News
The GREEK guard took it personally in the game's final stretch, leading his team to a 0-18 run in just 5 minutes! Olympiacos got the lead (63-60), ...
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Agape According to GREEKS and Their Love Songs
Agape, or love as the GREEKS say it, means one thing only--purity of desire, sacrifice, surrender, and complete selflessness.
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Golden Visa Program of GREECE
GREECE in recent years has become one of the most popular destinations for people to relocate. The country offers a perfect mix of privileges such ...
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Michael J. Decker Obituary
Michael J. Decker GREECE - Suddenly Thursday January 20, 2022. Predeceased by his father Gary Decker. Survived by his mother Cynthia Decker....
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Tribute To GREEKS Who Feed America
This legacy of GREEK restaurateur-ship in the United States is spread across the country and has an old and lasting impact on American culture. GREEK ...
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Our guide to buying a holiday home on a Greek island
Whitewashed houses, blue domed churches and silver-green olive trees: the colours of Greece transport you instantly to a beachfront taverna lapped by warm water ...
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Daniil Medvedev Fined USD12,000 For Outburst Against Chair Umpire
World No. 2 tennis player Daniil Medvedev has been fined USD 12000 for his outburst during the Australian Open semifinal clash against GREECE'S ...
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