History teaches us

10.April 2025. Nebojsa Jovanovic

How democracy was created

Pisistratus had his staff and distributed money from the state budget for better cultivation of olives, development of trade and export, construction of roads, repair of the city's water supply. And then the learned aristocrat Cleisthenes returned from political emigration

Greece: Unprecedented demonstrations

Your fight is ours too.

The Greek pro-government media initially reported extensively on the tragedy in Novi Sad - well, "tragedies happen elsewhere." However, they suddenly fell silent when a student protest broke out in Serbia. But it was already too late

57 people died.

28.February 2025. B. B.

General strike in Greece: Thousands of people on the streets, police fired tear gas

Due to the many unresolved issues related to the worst train accident in the history of Greece, in which 28 citizens died on February 2023, 57, a general strike is taking place in that country, in which even air traffic controllers have joined. Canceled flights from Belgrade to Greek cities and vice versa. Students in the blockade in Belgrade are organizing a rally of support

Earthquakes on the Greek island

08.February 2025. Ma. J.

Why does Santorini shake every few minutes?

Three earthquakes, two measuring 4,1 on the Richter scale and one measuring 4,4, were recorded early this morning (8 January) in the sea off the Greek island of Santorini

Fires in Greece

The World

13.August 2024 MS

Fires in Greece: "We are facing a biblical disaster"

One person died in the fires that engulfed Greece since Sunday, and the Greek authorities continued today to evacuate certain areas in the Athens area. The fire broke out on Sunday near Varnavas, about 35 kilometers north of Athens. More than 700 firefighters, 199 vehicles and 35 planes with water bombs were deployed.

The Spirit of the Times: The Birth of Music from Greek Tragedy

31.July 2024 Milan Milošević

Dream of Freedom by Mikis Theodorakis (2)

As an artist and fighter, actor and victim, he left his mark on Greek cultural and national self-awareness after the Balkan Wars, the Great War, the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor, the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, the Second World War (1941–44), the Civil War (1946– 1949) and the military regime of the 1970s. He was respected as an icon of the internationalist left-wing poetics of freedom and he admitted that the end of the utopia he fought for as a communist all his life had come to an end. As an artist, in a kind of Odyssey, he collected and united scattered elements of Hellenism from antiquity, through Byzantium to contemporary poets and the mainstay of folk art. More than 1000 works outlived him and his era - from sphere music and opera Antigone, across Songs of a dead brother to Sirtaki the Greek Zorba

Holy Mountain

25.July 2024 B. B.

The fight for the monastery of Esphigmenu: Greek police without permission to evict the schismatic brotherhood from the sanctuary

For years, the monks of the Esfigmenu monastery have been defying the rest of the Holy Mountain and the Ecumenical Patriarch by refusing to leave the monastery, because they believe that the Patriarch is not behaving in accordance with Orthodoxy since he cooperates with the Catholic Church. Monks are particularly worried by announcements that women may be allowed to visit Mount Athos

The Spirit of the Times: The Birth of Music from Greek Tragedy (1)

24.July 2024 Milan Milošević

Mikis Theodorakis' Dream of Freedom

As an artist and fighter, actor and victim, he left his mark on Greek cultural and national self-awareness after the Balkan Wars, the Great War, the 1922 disaster in Asia Minor, the Metaxas dictatorship in 1936, the Second World War (1941–44), the Civil War (1946– 1949) and the military regime of the 1970s. He was respected as an icon of the internationalist left-wing poetics of freedom and he admitted that the end of the utopia he fought for as a communist all his life had come to an end. As an artist, in a kind of Odyssey, he collected and united scattered elements of Hellenism from antiquity, through Byzantium to contemporary poets and the mainstay of folk art. More than 1000 works outlived him and his era - from the music of the spheres and the opera Antigone, through the Song of the Dead Brother to the Sirtaki of the Greek Zorba

A heat wave

16.July 2024 AI

Spa Sea near Dubrovnik: Temperature record broken

In Dubrovnik, the sea temperature reached 29,5 degrees on Monday. Nothing is better in Montenegro and Greece either. The consequences of the sea temperature being too high is that there are fewer and fewer fish and more and more jellyfish

Health

19.June 2024 S.Ć./N1

Cause of death – heat

Although not yet confirmed, it is believed that the cause of the number of deaths in Greece is the extreme heat. Common to all those who died or went missing is that they went hiking in high temperatures

Christian Mickoski

Northern Macedonia

16.May 2024. MP / Sky Greece

The new-old government and the new-old quarrel with Greece

If they think that we have violated the agreement, then there is an International Court of Justice, so we will cross our arguments there, VMRO President Kristijan Mickoski said regarding the diplomatic incident at the swearing-in of the new president of North Macedonia. Greece warns that compliance with the Prespa Agreement is a condition for joining the EU

Grčka

20.April 2024. Maja Popovic

Almost 200 beaches throughout Greece are protected by law

The competent ministries of the Republic of Greece have made joint decisions regarding the lease of the coast, according to which sunbeds will be prohibited on many beaches. The entire amendment of the law and regulations followed last year's citizen protests