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Restoring Kyiv’s Hellenic Heart
The following story was originally published by Neos Kosmos in 2018. It is a reflection of the important Hellenic links to Ukraine and its people through a strong connection with …
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Celebrating 20 years of the Food for Thought Network and Greek Australian women
This week events around the world marked International Women’s Day. Growing a deeper sense of purpose and ambition each year, we celebrate International Women’s Day with a spirit of solidarity …
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Russia: Swift Move Back to the Past
Many years ago, as a student at the Sorbonne, in Paris, I read “The Great Chessboard” written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Polish American diplomat, political scientist and former National Security Advisor. …
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Ancient Greeks also suffered poor leadership during plagues
In the United States February’s final week saw nearly 2000 deaths a day from COVID and yet local governments and the CDC have moved to aggressively roll back mitigating measures. …
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Diatribe – Russia, the Ukraine and us
The last free Greek territory to succumb to the Ottomans was the Principality of Theodoro, in the Crimea in 1475. Since time immemorial, the lands of Ukraine and Southern Russia, …
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Dear Diary, I got COVID-19 today
Knocked down, locked down and feeling down. Welcome to COVID-19. Welcome to mandatory isolation. I knew I had coronavirus two days before the Victorian Health Department notified me. I had flu-like symptoms when no influenza …
Diatribe – ‘Dad, when are we going to the parelasi?’
The night before my first parelasi (loosely translated as “march” or “parade”), I couldn’t sleep. On the couch by my bed, my mother had laid out the costume my aunt …
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My father’s family story – A journey down the Palaia Fokaia, Smyrni, memory lane
February 2016, I stood staring at the door of the faithfully restored stone house on the shores of Foca, 60 kilometres North-West of current day Izmir. I am looking at …
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West’s weak response to Russia on Ukraine hard to take
A few years ago I recounted in these pages a comment made to me by the then Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Synch. It was made during my visit to …
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Diatribe – When we abuse our elders
“My daughter-in-law keeps on making appointments for me to have a brain scan,” my elderly client tells me, his voice shaking. “I refuse to go. That’s what she did with …