August 13, 2024
Economy
Traders are moving Russian diesel cargoes to a new ship-to-ship (STS) loadings site in the northern Aegean Sea, as Western sanctions hit vessels carrying fuel loaded in Russian ports, LSEG and market sources data show. Since a full European Union embargo on importing Russian oil products took effect in February …
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February 22, 2023
FEATURED, Very Mix
Albania has seized an oil tanker carrying 22,500 tons of oil suspected of coming from Russia and arrested the crew for breaching a Western embargo, Albanian police said on Monday. The Liberian-registered oil and chemical tanker was seized in the coastal town of Durres. “From the first steps of investigation …
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January 25, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Police officers have arrested a Russian national in northern Greece for having sent threatening e-mails to Athens International Airport and six public hospitals in the Greek capital a day earlier. The 42-year-old Russian man was arrested in Thessaloniki in the early hours of this Wednesday by officers of the Sub-Directorate …
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July 22, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Russian government announced on Friday that it is adding Greece to the list of countries that it considers “unfriendly”, along with Denmark, Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia. According to an announcement on Friday by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin, the ‘Unfriendly Countries List’ contains those countries …
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June 29, 2022
Greece, Politics
Common sense should prevail over time and diplomatic activity between Russia and Greece in Moscow and Athens become normalized, Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted at a press briefing of Russian and international journalists on Wednesday. Zakharova’s statements come two days after Russia decided to expel 8 Greek …
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June 27, 2022
Greece, Politics
Russia expels eight Greek diplomats from the Embassy and the Consulate General in Moscow. Russian decision is “unfounded”, says Athens. The decision to expel the diplomats was announced to the Greek ambassador in Moscow by the Russian Foreign Ministry. media reported. In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek …
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May 25, 2022
Politics, World
The Russian Orthodox Church has let Christian Orthodox fathers down by supporting Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual head of some 260 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, said in an interview. Moscow calls its three-month-old invasion a “special military operation” to rid Ukraine of fascists, an assertion Kyiv …
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April 19, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
Greek authorities seized Russian-flagged tanker PEGAS citing reasons that the sanctions imposed by the European Union and the NATO on ships of Russian interests. The tanker was sailing off Karystos, south of the island of Evia. Only the 250-meter long tanker was seized but not its crude oil cargo. The …
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April 5, 2022
Politics, World
The head of Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has confirmed that seizures have been carried out on the assets of Russian individuals and companies over the invasion of Ukraine, in line with decisions of the United Nations Security Council and the European Union. Speaking to Kathimerini, agency chief Charalambos Vourliotis clarified …
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March 16, 2022
Politics, World
Ukraine urges Greece to shut its ports to Russian vessels and stop doing business with Russian companies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, Ukraine’s ambassador to Greece said on Wednesday. “We ask Greece in particular to close the ports to Russian vessels… stop doing business with them …
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March 14, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
A Russian Orthodox church in Holland has said it is cutting ties with the Moscow patriarchate and has requested to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople instead. “Is no longer possible for them to function within the Moscow patriarchate and provide a spiritually safe environment for our faithful,” a statement …
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March 1, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkey has warned all riparian and non-riparian countries not to pass warships through its Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoglu said on Monday evening. Yet Cavusoglu reiterated that Turkey cannot block all Russian warships accessing the Black Sea due to a clause in the pact exempting those returning …
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February 28, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece has suspended issuance and renewal of residence permits to wealthy Russian citizens investing in Greece “until further notice,” the Migration & Asylum Ministry said on Monday. The suspension applies to both permit requests under consideration and new requests. “New requests will not be accepted and no applications for the …
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February 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The Greek Foreign Ministry dismissed media reports on Friday claiming a possibility of co=production of the Russian anti-Covid19 vaccine SPUTNIK-V in the country. The possibility of co-production of the Russian vaccine with Greece was never mentioned during a meeting between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, …
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August 20, 2019
Very Mix
A private helicopter crashed into the sea near the port of the island of Poros short before 4 o’ clock on Tuesday afternoon. Search and Rescue operation for pilot and passengers. Black out on the island. The private helicopter with the pilot and two passengers onboard crashed into the sea …
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August 25, 2018
Very Mix
A Russian couple got on a inflatable dinghy and left the port of Novorossiysk for a short round of fishing in the Black Sea. Strong winds blew. drifted them the shore and got them into an unbelievable adventure. For five days, Nadezhda Achapkina, 35, and her husband Mikhail Alaverdyan, were sailing …
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July 1, 2018
Very Mix
The Frontex has released pictures from the rescue operation of the Russian tourist who was drifted away in the sea while on an air mattress. The missing for 20 hours. The 55-year-old Russian national was spotted by Frontex border patrol aircraft and was rescued by the Greek Coast Guard. She …
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July 1, 2018
Very Mix
France has joined the US and Russia in seeking the extradition of a Russian held in Greece for allegedly laundering $4 billion using the bitcoin digital currency, a court source said Wednesday. The French warrant says Alexander Vinnik, who headed bitcoin exchange BTC-e, had defrauded over 100 people in six …
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June 28, 2018
Very Mix
A missing tourist has been found on an air mattress that was drifted out to the sea, 6 nautical miles off the North of the island of Crete on Thursday. The woman on the floating mattress was spotted by Frontex aircraft and was rescued by the Greek Coast Guard. The …
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May 17, 2018
Sports
Three Russian wrestlers were denied visas to enter Greece for taking part in the 2018 European Sambo Championship this week, Alexander Konakov, the head coach of the Russian national sambo team, told TASS on Wednesday. The International Sambo Federation will launch its own probe into the incident, the organization’s president …
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