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Foreign ministers of nations belonging to the European Union are meeting today on whether or not to join in the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics amid increasing calls for them to take action. The foreign minister of Lithuania...

On Friday, the athletes of the Greek Olympic team had their first encounter with the Olympic slopes at the 12th Olympic Winter Games, held 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The Olympic team who has been in Sochi since Thursday seems...

Greece’s rainbow-fingered uniforms at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics opening ceremony were seen by international media as a strong message of support to the global gay and lesbian community that was deemed unwanted by the Russian Government. Although the Greek...

The opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games 2014 in  Sochi, Russia, is taking place February 7 at 6.30 p.m. The Greek mountainous village Krasnaya Polyana (Red Glade) will also host a part of the biggest sporting event in...

  Those who are in charge of organizing the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, together with with the Moscow Patriarchate’s authorities, constructed a glorious Byzantine style Greek Orthodox church. It is an impressive Byzantine temple devoted to Christ the Savior. In...

Early this morning the Sochi-2014 Olympic Torch was plunged to the bottom of Lake Baikal, which is the deepest lake in the world. The lake curves for nearly 400 miles through south-eastern Siberia, north of the Mongolian boarder. The...

The Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched today from Kazakhstan steppes with three astronauts and Olympic torch of Sochi Olympic Winter Games and arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The Russian TV directly relayed the “Olympic Soyuz” arrival at the ISS,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic flame on Red Square on Sunday, but the four-month relay to Sochi for the Winter Games got off to a rocky start when one of the torches went out. The glitch occurred...

Financial Times are acutely criticizing the decision of SEGAS to suspend any operation to protest against cuts to its budget, thus jeopardizing Greece’s participation in track and field events at the London Olympics. “The funding crisis for the Greek team...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias on Friday pledged here to further promote cooperation in various fields between their countries. The two leaders are in Russia's Sochi for the opening ceremony of the 22nd Winter Olympic...

Nico Polychronidis is the first Greek ski jumper to compete in the Winter Olympics Games of Sochi, Russia. Polychronidis was born in Bremen, Germany, to a German mother and Greek father. At the age of six he started jumping and...

Greece’s Consulate General, Yiannis Plotas, participated in a unique and impressive ceremony of Sochi Winter Games Torch Relay that took place in Russia. He received an invitation from the Russian Olympic Committee, which was an honor for Greek Consulate...

Formula 1 and UEFA announced on Friday that their scheduled events in Russia would be moved elsewhere, in a move aimed to penalize the country over its attack on Ukraine. European soccer's governing body, UEFA, will relocate the May 28...

A letter from 2012 written by the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to a local Greek politician, came to light on Tuesday, revealing Johnson’s admission that the Parthenon Marbles should never have been removed from Athens. Not even a...

The Greek George Tellos, who was responsible for the stage lighting of many Greek theatrical shows, is the lighting designer and director of photography in Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Tellos is responsible for the stage lighting of the medal awards...