Greece

In an unprecedented incident, the Russian Embassy to Athens blasted the US Senator Bob Menendez, Washington and the American strategy in the eastern Mediterranean in a series of tweets on Holy Thursday. The embassy published four different tweets in the...

A Russian government official said on Thursday that Greece is no longer a safe haven for its citizens. The allegation, made by a foreign minister, comes as the Greek government continues to condemn Russia's February invasion of Ukraine. In the months...

In an interview yesterday with Real News on Sunday, the United States Ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, had high praise for Greece, saying that the two countries share common objectives. Referring to a balance of power in the Mediterranean, Pyatt remarked...

Unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the Russian consulate in the Athenian neighborhood of Halandri in the early hours of Friday, causing minor damage to the building. Police said that the consulate's cameras showed two people on a motorbike...

Moscow is asking Athens to clarify the Greek authorities' reported refusal to grant visas to Russian Orthodox clerics, Russia's Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova has said. Some Russian priests have claimed that the Greek authorities have denied them a visa without...

An international exhibition of photo-journalism opened October 26, at the Russian Cultural and Science Center in Athens. The exhibition; bringing together iconic photos captured by photo-journalists from several countries, was organized by the Rossiya Segodnya International News Agency. It was held...

On Monday it was announced that the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy to Greece, Andrei Malanin, did not show up for work and was later found dead in his apartment in Athens. According to embassy sources,...

President of Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Sunday ordered general secretary of the Greek presidency ambassador Georgios Gennimatas to call the Russian Embassy in Athens and convey his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin and to the families of the...

Russian tourists to Greece are expected to increase in 2017, Konstantinos Gambaeridis, founding member of the cultural center "Russian House" and director of St. Petersburg governor, said in statements to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency's radio station Praktoreio 104.9 FM. "We...

The 5th Russian Film Festival of Rhodes opened its doors to the public on Tuesday, September 29th and it will last until Saturday, October 3rd. Several Russian cinema actors, as well as the Consul General of Russia gave a...

  Athens has allegedly denied a U.S. request to close airspace to Russian aircraft that would transport humanitarian aid to Syria, according to a Sputnik report. According to the news agency report, citing as a source an anonymous Greek diplomat, Moscow...

A unique exhibition of the Russian Avant-Garde, from the collection of the famous gallery Manege in St. Petersburg, is opening at Theocharakis Foundation of Athens on December 15th through the 11th of March 2012, organized under the auspices of...

The Greek government has extended visas for Russian tourists reluctant to return to their fire ravaged homeland, according to the Russian Prime-Tass news agency. Wildfires have engulfed central Russia for the past month killing more than 50 and leaving more...

The secretary-general of the Ministry of Foreign affairs, Mr. Yiannis-Alexis Zepos, announced a few minutes ago, to the Russian ambassador in Greece Mr.Vladimir Chkhikvishvili that the Greek authorities are able to send by air a group of the special...

A post by the Russian Embassy in Athens on Facebook accuses Greece's leadership of an "anti-Russian propaganda" campaign