The launch of joint actions and the promotion of new partnerships for the upcoming Russia – Greece Year of Tourism 2017-2018 were discussed recently in Moscow between Russian Deputy Culture Minister Alla Manilova and a Greek delegation headed by ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Moderate quake shakes Rhodes and surrounding islands in Greece
An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale shook Rhodes and other islands in its vicinity about 2:30 on Wednesday afternoon. The epicentre of the earthquake was located under the sea between Rhodes and Karpathos and about 33 km south of the island of ...
Nottingham Forest takeover by Greek consortium gets Football League nod
The Football League are understood to have finally given the go-ahead for the takeover of troubled Championship club Nottingham Forest by a Greek consortium. Shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Olympiacos, and consortium partner Socrates ...
24-hour anti-austerity strike cripples Greece
A demonstrator clashes with riot police (left) during protests marking a 24-hour nationwide strike against the latest round of austerity in Athens on Wednesday. At least 14,000 took to the streets, according to Initial police estimates The strike call by ...
The GREEK Lantern: Tony Plakas celebrates 20 years at Compass
After college Tony Plakas knew what his fate would be – as a gay man he would get AIDS and die a slow, agonizing death. “I was 16 in 1988.
WHO survey reveals GREEK teens are fattest in Europe
GREEK teens are the fattest in the Europe, according to a new report on adolescent obesity released Wednesday by the World Health Organization ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Greek PM refers to optimistic scenario of debt relief, 'investment tsunami' and even tentative market return
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared optimistic on Wednesday over pending developments regarding debt relief measures for the bailout-dependent country, a prospect that his embattled coalition government needs to present as a "strategic success" in ...