Greece

The owner of PAOK Thessaloniki reappeared on Tuesday to apologize following his dramatic pitch invasion on Sunday night with a holstered firearm. Ivan Savvidis, who was sought by police and had apparently disappeared for at least 36 hours, issued a...

Greek courts have issued an arrest warrant for PAOK FC owner Ivan Savvidis who interrupted the PAOK-AEK match after entering the pitch bearing a gun. Four other men are also wanted in the case. The PAOK owner followed by his...

The president of PAOK FC, Ivan Savvidis, entered the field at a top league match his soccer team was playing against AEK FC, with what appeared to be a pistol visible on his belt. The PAOK owner followed by his...

Dimera Company, owned by prominent businessman Ivan Savvidis, bought three Greek newspapers at an auction held at an Athens court. The Greek-Russian businessman, who among others owns football club PAOK of Thessaloniki, bought "Imerisia" for 580,000 euros and the two...

Businessman Ivan Savvidis now holds a 19.63% share of the company "Teletypos" (Mega Channel), a percentage that until yesterday belonged to Pegasus Publishing and previous shareholder Foti Bobola. This is a percentage that was used as collateral for Pegasus Publishing's...

Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis was declared the final winner of a fourth broadcasting license as the runner-up in the recent tender for the auctioning of four nationwide TV licenses, following the withdrawal of businessman Ioannis Kalogritsas. The relevant committee has...

After the withdrawal on Monday of businessman Ioannis Kalogritsas from the process of awarding four nationwide TV content broadcasting licenses, Dimera Media Ltd, the company of Ivan Savvidis, and Alpha, the company of Dimitris Kontominas, are next in line...

One of the four contenders who lost the television license tender that took place for Greece's television stations last week has offered to purchase Alpha TV. Greek-Russian businessman, Ivan Savvidis, owner of Thessaloniki soccer club PAOK, made an offer to buy the...

Greek-Russian businessman and politician Ivan Savvidis was warmly greeted by the Rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, on the occasion of Saints Cyril and Methodius Celebration on May 11. A month ago, the Charitable Foundation of...

Ivan Savvidis has leased the building of the Macedonia Palace in Thessaloniki for the next 30 years. According to IKA-ETAM the annual leasing rent rate will amount to 1.7 million euros. The long-term lease of property contract that was signed...

Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common, with mostly Albanian and Slav tribes settling in the fertile plains of Thessaly

If you're in a crowd in Greece and shout "Mr. Papadopoulos," the most common surname in Greece, chances are that at least one man will turn his head.

A great number of police officers, along with squads from Greece's anti-terrorist unit, have been deployed in Thessaloniki for Tuesday's football game between PAOK and Turkey's Besiktas team for the Champions League qualifiers. The Istanbul-based team will arrive in the...

Greece's historic ''ETHNOS'' newspaper announced to the public on Monday that it will suspend publication of its weekday edition beginning on July 31, 2019. The newspaper announced its ownership's decision to suspend the daily edition of the paper in a laconic...

The story of the legendary Roupel fortress in northern Greece survives in our collective memory through the historically-correct reenactment of the battle which takes place every May on the site. The people behind this important initiative have now released the...