Section: Kathimerini (Greece)
Olympiakos lands Dynamo Kiev in Europa League’s last 32
Olympiakos has drawn Ukrainian powerhouse Dynamo Kiev in the Europa League Round 32, according to the draw UEFA held on Monday. …read more Source:...
Russian patriarch appeals to leaders over Ukraine feud
Russian Patriarch Kirill has reportedly sent messages to world leaders including Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, asking for their support in his feud with Kiev over the issue of the Ukrainian Church’s independence from Moscow. …read more Source:...
Patriarch defends decision for Ukrainian church independence
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios has defended the decision to grant independence to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine from the Russian Church, which has upset relations with the Moscow Patriarchate. …read more Source:...
More Albanians acquire Greek citizenship
The largest group of foreign nationals that obtained Greek citizenship in 2016 were Albanians (88 percent), followed by Ukrainians (1.5 percent) and Russians (1.2 percent), according to data from the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat. …read more Source:...
‘The Distant Barking of Dogs’ scoops top honors at Thessaloniki doc fest
Simon Lereng Wilmont’s “The Distant Barking of Dogs,” a powerful fly-on-the-wall portrait of a 10-year-old boy living with his grandmother in a warzone village near the Ukraine-Russia border has won the international competition award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. …read more Source:...
Chinese vice premier to visit Ukraine, Greece, Italy
Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai will visit Ukraine, Greece and Italy from December 4 to 13, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Thursday. …read more Source:...
Fatal plane crash probed
An investigation has been launched to determine what caused a CT2K private plane to crash near Rodopi, in northern Greece, on Friday, leading to the deaths of the two Ukrainians on board. …read more Source:...
Ukrainians remanded for trafficking illegal cigarettes
Authorities confiscated 1,557,200 contraband cigarette packets found on board the Goldendri – a Tanzanian-flagged freight ship, which was detected this week off the southern coast of Crete – and remanded six Ukrainian crew members. …read more Source:...
Greece’s Demy into Eurovision final
Demy, Greece’s representative in the 2017 Eurovision song contest, was two of 10 to qualify for the final in the first round of heats in Kiev, Ukraine. …read more Source:...
The new oligarchs
Greece is at serious risk of becoming a lot like Ukraine in terms of seeing its media and public affairs slipping into the hands of a small group of new oligarchs who will make the maligned old guard seem like nice guys. …read more Source:...
