Viennese Waltzes | Athens | December 11 & 12
The Johann Strauss Ensemble is back in Athens and will be inaugurating the Christmas season at the Athens Concert Hall with waltzes and polkas.
Reforms offset Covid impact
Reforms are improving the business environment on a constant and enduring basis, as well as containing the effects of the pandemic, concluded an MRB survey for the Business Environment Observatory of the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV), which showed the Difficulty Assessment Index drop below 5 for the first time.
Greek Jews welcome Russian decision to give back Holocaust archive
Greece’s Jewish community on Thursday welcomed “with immense emotion” a decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to hand over the Jewish Holocaust archives that were taken to Moscow after the end of World War II.
Spy suspects arrested last year to go on trial Monday
The trial of two men who were arrested on the island of Rhodes in December last year on suspicion of spying against Greece begins this Monday as the time limit for their pre-trial detention expires.
Cartoon by Ilias Makris (09/12/2021)
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Postdoctoral fellowship In Hellenic Studies and Religion: Eastern Christianity
The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Religion at Princeton University invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on Eastern Christianity.
Bob Dole’s Philotimo
Unfortunately, we will again join current and former Presidents, Senators, Members, cabinet officials and other prominent officials at the Washington National Cathedral to lay to rest another friend.
47 stolen antiquities from Steinhardt collection returning to Greece
Forty-seven stolen Greek artifacts among the dozens surrendered by American hedge-fund billionaire Michael Steinhardt under a deal with US authorities will be returned to Greece in the coming days, the Culture Ministry announced Thursday.
Mega vaccination center to open in Glyfada amid spike in jab demand
Health authorities will open a new vaccination mega centre in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada, as demand for a first and third dose of a Covid vaccine has spiked, a Health Ministry official announced on Thursday.
Police arrest man involved in ELTA branch hold up
An armed robber was arrested after holding up a Greek postal service ELTA branch in Koropi, east Attica, on Thursday.