The President of the Republic Mr Demetris Christofias and the President of the Russian Federation Mr Dmitry Medvedev exchanged congratulatory messages yesterday on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Cyprus and the Russian Federation. In his message, President Christofias notes, inter alia, the following: [...]

By Eva Angelinos
Jean-Luc Godard, one of the greatest living directors and one of the founders of the French cinematic movement called Nouvelle Vague or, French New Wave, was absent from the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Godard stated that he would not attend the festival due to the fact that “issues such as the current financial state [...]

German magazine Focus publishes a manipulated depiction of the Venus de Milo, once again. The cover reads “Greece and our Money” and will be out on news stands by Monday. Venus with a little help from Photoshop has become a “beggar”, which according to the German magazine characterizes Greece and the help the country has [...]

Greeks taking fright at the fiscal crisis enveloping the debt-stricken country are snapping up properties in Britain as part of a desperate flight of capital.
London is the traditional home of Greece’s wealthy shipping community. The city is being bought at an unprecedented rate by rich Greeks desperate to transfer their bank deposits.
A recent article on [...]

By Eliana Eliopoulos-Camacho
Author David Brewer acknowledges that his latest book, “Greece, The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence,”  may challenge the traditional beliefs Greeks have, about Greece under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. However, he says it aims to tell the story accurately, and to give a [...]

By Eliana Eliopoulos-Camacho
Paul Cartledge, professor at Cambridge University and honorary citizen of Sparta, started learning ancient Greek at the age of 11 in 1958. His new book, “Ancient Greece: A History In Eleven Cities”, gives an introduction to the history of Greek civilization by providing a synopsis of 11 citizen-state communities of Ancient Greece (Cnosso, [...]