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  • Russia to become next Greece’ with slowing economic growth - Renaissance Capital

    Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...

  • Pete The Plumber Skyllas Loses All To Gambling

    Pete Skyllas on the World Poker Tour, where he had better luck than gambling in a New York City operation the FBI said was massive and included threats of violence. NEW YORK - In a scene right out of the TV mob show The Sopranos, one of the victims of a large-scale gambling operation broken by the FBI in New York City was a Greek-America who had to turn over his plumbing business because he ...

  • Make your own Greek yogurt

    It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C.There are a lot of reasons that yogurt has been beloved since the time of the woolly mammoth. First of all, it tastes great.Then, of course, there are the health benefits of eating yogurt. Yogurt contains enzymes that help with absorbing nutrients. It also contains healthy bacteria linked ...

  • Greek Suicides Highest In 50 Years

    (Photo/Andy Dabilis) A man reads notes pinned to the so-called Martyr's Tree in Syntagma Square in central Athens where retired pensioner Dimitris Christoulas, shot himself in the head in April, 2012 to protest austerity measures he said pushed him to take his life. ATHENS - With social unrest calming, and as the government moves toward seeking foreign investors to help the economy ...

  • Luxury Greek Holiday from Cosmos for Prize-Winning Blogger

    Tour operator Cosmos has announced the winner of its latest competition, giving one lucky blogger a luxury holiday in Crete for two. The ability of bloggers to start conversations and drive opinion on holiday destinations has never been more relevant, and the travel industry is naturally very receptive to the concept of crowd-sourcing and sharing information. So ...


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Downhill Racer [DVD]

Downhill Racer [DVD]

Downhill Racer could have only been made by a major studio in the 1960s, a period of significant recession in which European cinema was taking the world by storm, audiences were dominated by younger and more educated moviegoers, and the studios were finding themselves perpetu ... ...

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  • Greek Patriarchates Jerusalem land plot raises concerns for homeowners future

    After decades of leasing land to the government, the Greek Patriarchate's sale to a private, foreign buyer may signal inflated prices ahead for current ...

  • Student Stabs His Mother Over TV Dispute

    The local society of Agios Konstantinos of Agrinio is shocked by the news of a student who stabbed his mother because she told him to turn the TV off. The crime occurred at 2.20 after midnight when, according to preliminary information, the third grade senor high school student stabbed his mother to death. It all started when the 51-year old teacher reprimanded her son for staying up watching ...

  • How To Make Greek Yogurt At Home

    It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C., when Neolithic herdsmen discovered that storing milk in animal skin containers curdled the liquid, thickening it and giving it tart flavor. But judging from the supermarket shelf space and commercial airtime now devoted to the latest iteration -- thick and creamy Greek-style yogurt -- ...

  • Ceremony Honors Greeks Who Saved Jews In WWII

    A woman weeps during the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina on March 25, 1944. The deportation was enforced by the German army. Almost all of the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944 when their train reached the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Many others were saved by Greeks. ATHENS - During the Axis occupation of mainland Greece from 1941 to 1944, and the ...

  • IRN held successfully the 2nd Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil Gas Summit April 18th-19th Limassol

    The 2nd Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil & Gas 2013 was held successfully on 18th and 19th April at the Four Seasons Hotel in Limassol gathering 160 senior level delegates from international oil companies, governmental officials, university experts and service providers. The summit examined in depth the recent developments in the oil and gas industry in the two closely related countries with each ...

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