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1 month ago | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
I had intended to write about some very good documentaries I saw at the 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, which ends on Sunday. Instead, though, I will focus on the incident of vandalism at the National Gallery of Athens, when a lawmaker from the religious-fundamentalist Niki party smashed four paintings, which, he claimed, “insulted religion.” The incident has an unpleasant peculiarity.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
The historian Kostas Kostis, born in Athens in 1957, is an accomplished author with numerous books to his name. One of his most significant works is “In Search of the Plague: The Greek Peninsula Faces the Black Death, 14th to 19th Centuries,” first published in Greek in 1995, exploring a lesser-known chapter in Greek history.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
We watch the car thermometer drop 10 degrees from 30 Celsius as we leave the village of Anogeia in central Crete as we make the climb to the Skinakas Observatory on the summit of Mount Psiloritis (Ida). The higher up we go, the more bare the landscape becomes, with herds of goats and black rams with impressive twisted horns dotting the hillsides.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
Greek singer Despina Vandi canceled a recent appearance in Cesme in Izmir (once known as Smyrna) because the Turkish flag and a poster of modern Turkey’s founder, Kemal Ataturk, adorned the stage. The concert had been organized by the Turkish Education Foundation (TEV).
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
On Friday night, we waited in the packed Christos Lambrakis Hall for conductor Karina Canellakis to take the stage to conduct the London Philharmonic in a much-anticipated concert. The president of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, was also present in the main box.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
Just as we were saying that Alexis Tsipras has disappeared and as his comrades criticized his silence throughout the storm in SYRIZA caused by the election of Stefanos Kasselakis, the leftist opposition party’s former president turned up again. He was first spotted at a dinner with former party spokesman and close ally Gavriil Sakellaridis and then in a series of contacts, including with Kasselakis, where he was, supposedly, trying to secure the party’s unity.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
Since 2015, when he came to power with leftist SYRIZA, Alexis Tsipras is said to have maintained a neutral stance twice: The first was when he announced a referendum in June 2015. It was a political decision he made himself. Supposedly, as prime minister, he should have followed a neutral stance. Supposedly.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
The results of the first opinion poll after the regional and local elections capture the mood of a public that is watching, in real time, the disintegration of the party that is the main opposition and which rose to government in 2015 with promises and commitments that could not be implemented (but even if they had been they would have been disastrous for the country).
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
The results of the first opinion poll after the regional and local elections capture the mood of a public that is watching, in real time, the disintegration of the party that is the main opposition and which rose to government in 2015 with promises and commitments that could not be implemented (but even if they had been implemented they would have been disastrous for the country).
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
ekathimerini.com | Elias Maglinis
The famous phrase uttered by the late premier and PASOK leader Andreas Papandreou in 1986 when he expelled then-minister Gerasimos Arsenis from the party after a critical speech the latter gave in Karditsa, has gone down in history: “With his actions, Mr Arsenis has removed himself from the party.”This same sentence was also used by SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis to announce that he is expelling veteran lawmaker Stefanos Tzoumakas.
