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Businessman Evangelos Marinakis Obtains Mega TV Trademark and Archive

The media company ''Alter Ego,'' owned by Greek businessman Evangelos Marinakis, obtained the audiovisual archives and the logo of ''MEGA TV,'' Greece's historic first private television station, which ceased broadcasting in 2018. He also acquired several properties as a result...

Archives, Possible Throne Room Discovered in Ancient Palace on Crete

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday that a new storage room for valuables in Zominthos Palace, on the plateau of Mount Psiloritis on Crete, was discovered at the sprawling site during this year's excavation season. Supporting evidence for the Palace...

Documentary Melan*cholia at the Greek Film Archive Foundation

The Documentary Melan*cholia, written and directed by Ariadne Koutsaftis, has been officially added to the Greek Film Archive Foundation and can be viewed for the first time publicly today, April 6. The film was made to raise awareness about...

Digital Archive Makes 3D Record of Ancient Greek Wonder (video)

Ancient Corinth is among the first endangered monuments to be preserved online as part of a digital archive of world civilization. Google Arts & Culture and non-profit company CyArk have worked together and created the world's largest three-dimensional digital archive...

British National Archives: Callaghan “Not Prepared” to Give Evidence on Talks with Turkey Before Turkey's 1974 Invasion

A limited number of files on Cyprus, dating back to 1976, have been included in the latest release of Foreign Office archives in London. The files include a letter by the then Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, (dated 28 January 1976)...

HIV Cases in Greece Drop, Tests Shortages Rise

December 1 is the World AIDS Day, when people around the world look closely into the victims of the epidemic that devastated the world 33 years ago, when it was first recorded. The number of HIV infections in Greece in...

Protest Against Benetton Store in Greece for Firing HIV Positive Employee

The "Reworkers" activist group, on Wednesday, demonstrated against a Benetton store in central Athens for the firing of an employee who is HIV positive. According to a Press Project report, the man was employed by the clothing company in 2013....

Archives in Greece to Open to Aid Efforts on the Fate of Missing Persons in Cyprus

After 43 years, archives that were locked away and sealed will be released to contribute in efforts to ascertain the fate of missing persons, said the Defence Ministers of Cyprus and Greece, Christoforos Fokaides and Panos Kammenos respectively after...

Court Acquits HIV-Positive Women Charged with 'Transmitting the Virus' Via Prostitution

An Athens Misdemeanours Court acquitted a group of HIV positive women arrested in 2012 and charged with repeated counts of grievous bodily harm on the grounds that they were transmitting the HIV/AIDS virus by working as prostitutes and having...

KEELPNO: New HIV Diagnoses in Greece at Lowest Level in 5 Years

According to figures released by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (KEELPNO) on Monday, new diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are at their lowest levels in years. During an event at Athens University for World AIDS Day,...

Greece and Kazakhstan Continue 'Bridge of Friendship' With Archive Exchange of Deported Greeks

According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Athens, Aleksei Volkov and the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Yannis Amanatidis, have agreed to exchange archived information on deported Greeks to Kazakhstan. The two...

Cotton Mill Turned into Migrant Center in Thiva as Cretan Officials Raise Concerns over Construction of 4 New Migrant Camps

According to Greek officials, the government is planning to use a former cotton mill near the city of Thiva in central Greece to house some 1,000 migrants. The government plans to transfer the majority of the migrants currently living at...

Cyprus Cabinet Approves 200,000 Euros for Archive Research into Missing Persons

President Nicos Anastasiades has announced that the Cabinet decided to approve the funding of 200,000 euros to be used for the recruitment of researchers who will work intensively to search the archives of UN and other countries and collect...

#greekdocs Allows Access to Archive of Independent Documentaries on Greek Crisis

A new resource at #greekdocs is an archive of 45 documentaries of various lengths that document the austerity crisis that has crippled Greece in several facets of life. The archive is an ongoing project, and currently of the 45 documentaries...

'HIV/AIDS and Discrimination; Spotting the Stigma of the Stigma' Conference to be Held May 23

The general secretariat of transparency and human rights of the ministry of justice and the Hellenic Association of Seropositive People named “Positive voice” are organizing a one-day conference titled “HIV/AIDS and discrimination; spotting the stigma of the stigma,” on...