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Cyprus, in a bid to leave their mark on the country's Presidency of the Council of the EU 2012 starting in July, have planned an exhibition presenting works of El Greco for this October. The Leventeion Municipal Museum, situated in...

The Greek-Russian Finance Chamber organized the 1st Greek-Russian Forum “Greece-New Investment Cooperation Possibilities” to take place June 6 in the Chamber’s premises in Moscow. The Forum aims at informing the Russian business community on Greece’s finances, investment cooperation and growth...

Curtains closed on the 3-day long Matala Festival 2012 held in the Municipality of Phaistos in Crete. The successful hippies’ reunion was much bigger than last year and featured two musical scenes along with many prominent Greek artists. Visitors travelled...

Its funny where a taste or smell can transport you. Thirty-five years ago waiting for the "big lunch" bell filled my heart with dread. Trying to find a quiet corner to open my brown square school bag to discover what concoction my Greek mother...

The two Greek-Orthodox churches located in the historical Greek Community in central Vienna, the church of the Holy Trinity and Saint George, participated in this year’s “Long Night of Churches” (Lange Nacht der Kirchen) Friday, June 1. It is...

“Europe owes Greece the foundations of the European spirit and it’s a shame to talk about Greeks with such superficiality and irresponsibility,” noted the Viennese Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn last night during his speech in the framework of the...

Desperate Greeks heard Friday that public hospitals of the country are lacking in medicine. As a result, people struggling with serious deseases and illnesses are helpless, since the companies providing their medicine announced that they stop transactions with the...

Stacy Skartsiaris, owner of Theo & Stacy's, is a Greek woman living in Kalamazoo, Michigan, who has organized, for the past 36 years, the Greek Festival of the city. She did so all these years along with her late...

After tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity’s holiest sites. Clerics from the three largest denominations represented in the church—Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Roman Catholic—gather each...

The Music School of Greek Diaspora Yiannis Polykandriotis, of the famous homonymous bouzouki maestro, has been selected to lead the parade for the “One Month Counting to the London Olympics 2012,’’ playing Greek music at Waltham Cross EN8 7LF on June 23....

The students of Modern Greek Language at the Thiers High School in France chose Aristophanes play “Acharnis” for their school year ending celebration. The students, under the guidance of their Greek teacher Ioanna Mousikoudi, amused the visitors as well the...

"A Green Story" officially kicked off the 2012 Los Angeles Greek Film Festival. The film is a biographical tale based on the life of Van Vlahakis, a Greek immigrant who traveled to the US with just a few dollars...

The Greek Diethnes Vima publishing house will put the book “Los Cinco luchadores cubanos en las cárceles de EE.UU.” (The Five Cuban Fighters in US Prisons) up for sale next week, an initiative aimed at bringing information about the...

The well-known theater play by Lakis Lazopoulos, “Sorry...I’m Greek,” which received warm applause in Europe lately, will also travel to Cyprus July 22-27 for limited performances. The exciting comedy presenting economic and political aspects of developments in Greece under a...

American Madeline Miller is a classics teacher who recently won the very prestigious Orange Prize for fiction at London's Royal Festival Hall. She wrote her debut book "The Song of Achilles" on the life of the ancient Greek warrior...