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[beardedmrbean]

A teenager is fighting for his life in a Greek hospital after a policeman shot him in the head as he fled a petrol station, allegedly without paying.

The officer fired two shots at the 16-year-old Roma boy in the second biggest city Thessaloniki.

Protesters took to the streets on Monday, throwing petrol bombs at police.

The shooting has highlighted the recurrent issue of police violence in Greek cities.

Last year an 18-year-old Roma man called Nikos Sampanis was fatally shot in a car chase near Athens and on 6 December 2008 a 15-year-old boy was shot dead in the capital during a police night patrol.

Alexis Grigoropoulos's death in the central district of Exarchia is remembered every year with big protests in Athens and other cities. Several thousand officers were deployed in the capital on Tuesday to prevent trouble.

In the latest shooting, the teenager filled up his vehicle with €20 (£17) of petrol and then left. CCTV released on Tuesday revealed that four policemen were inside the petrol station at the time.

The 16-year-old drove away chased by police on motorbikes. Police said he then turned his vehicle towards them with the aim of ramming into them.

"I fired once in the air and once towards the vehicle. Colleagues' lives were at risk," the 34-year-old officer was quoted as saying. He was later suspended from duty and charged with carrying out the shooting.

News of his shooting prompted protests from the local Roma community outside the hospital in Thessaloniki where the boy had surgery to remove the bullet from his head. Protesters joined friends and relatives at the scene and stones were thrown at police, who responded with stun grenades.

"And what if he didn't pay? Did they have to kill him?" his father told Greek media, adding that the boy had made a mistake and police should have arrested him at home.

Local reports say Roma protesters burned tyres and rubbish bins in the west of the city. The police officer charged with the shooting appeared in court accused of attempted homicide and other offences.

Video from outside the court later went viral showing a man identified as the boy's father being manhandled by police outside the court. The man is seen being thrown to the ground, surrounded by riot police.

According to the Council of Europe, the Roma (Gypsies) are Greece's biggest minority and number some 270,000, mostly living in makeshift accommodation.

As the boy lay in a critical condition in hospital in Thessaloniki, his lawyer told reporters that they did not want him to become another Alexis Grigoropoulos.

Theofilos Alexopoulos told Thess Today that his life was hanging by a thread but they wanted him to survive and for the plight of Roma people to be recognised.

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Unlocking Greek Real Estate: Insights from Local Experts

Introduction

Are you considering investing in Greek real estate? Unlocking Greek Real Estate: Insights from Local Experts is here to provide you with valuable information and expert advice on navigating the Greek property market. Greece is known for its stunning landscapes, rich history, and vibrant culture, making it an attractive destination for investors looking to capitalize on its potential.

In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into various aspects of the Greek real estate Greek homes for sale market, including legal considerations, popular locations, investment opportunities, and tips from local experts. Whether you're a seasoned investor or a first-time buyer, this article will equip you with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions and unlock the potential of Greek real estate.

Unlocking Greek Real Estate: Insights from Local Experts

When it comes to investing in foreign real estate markets, local expertise is invaluable. By tapping into the insights of local experts, you can gain a deeper understanding of the nuances specific to each market and make well-informed investment choices. In the context of Greek real estate, local experts offer unique perspectives that can help unlock its true potential.

FAQ What are the legal considerations when investing in Greek real estate? When investing in Greek real estate, it is essential to be aware of the legal framework and regulations governing property ownership. Hiring a reputable lawyer who specializes in real estate transactions is highly recommended to ensure a smooth and secure process. What are some popular locations for real estate investment in Greece? Greece offers a diverse range of locations that appeal to different types of investors. Popular destinations include Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, Mykonos, Santorini, and Rhodes. Each location has its own unique charm and investment potential. Are there any restrictions on foreign property ownership in Greece? As an EU member state, Greece allows foreign nationals to own property without any significant restrictions. Non-EU citizens may need to obtain permission from the Greek Ministry of Defense for properties located within designated military zones. How is the rental market in Greece? The rental market in Greece has experienced significant growth in recent years, driven by an increase in tourism and a growing demand for short-term rentals. Popular tourist destinations such as Athens and the Greek islands offer excellent opportunities for rental income. What are some potential risks and challenges of investing in Greek real estate? Like any investment, there are risks involved in the Greek real estate market. Some challenges include bureaucratic procedures, tax obligations, fluctuating property prices, and economic instability. However, with proper research and guidance from local experts, these risks can be mitigated. What is the process of buying property in Greece? The process of buying property in Greece typically involves the following steps: finding a suitable property, conducting due diligence, signing a preliminary agreement, transferring funds, and completing the final deed at a notary's office. It is crucial to work with professionals who can guide you thro

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Qatargate, no more house arrest or electronic bracelet for Eva Kaili. The former vice president: "Now I want to return to the European Parliament"

Former European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili intends to return to her job in the Strasbourg Chamber. Her lawyers made it known, informs the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, after yesterday the Thessaloniki politician was released from house arrest with the obligation of an electronic bracelet, as the precautionary requirements no longer apply. Speaking to Greek broadcaster Skai, lawyer…

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BBC 0431 3 Mar 2023

9915Khz 0358 3 MAR 2023 - BBC (UNITED KINGDOM) in ENGLISH from TALATA VOLONONDRY. SINPO = 55434. English, dead carrier s/on @0358z then ID@0359z pips and newsroom preview. @0401z World News anchored by Gareth Barlow. Donald Trump does not have absolute immunity from civil suits seeking damages over his alleged incitement of the January 6 Capitol attack, the US justice department said in a court filing that could have profound implications for complaints against the former president. Prominent Cambodian opposition figure Kem Sokha was on Friday sentenced to 27 years in detention under house arrest after being found guilty of treason, in a case condemned by the United States as politically motivated. A police officer and civilian were killed during violent protests in Colombia's Caqueta province on Thursday, and 79 officers and nine oilfield workers were taken hostage by members of rural communities, the government said. The violence erupted in part of the San Vicente del Caguan municipality, where members of rural and Indigenous communities blocked access to an oil field and set a fire, national police said, to demand Emerald Energy help fix roads. A disgraced South Carolina lawyer has been found guilty of murdering his wife and son to distract from his multi-million dollar financial crimes. The jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Alex Murdaugh, 54, guilty of two counts of murder at the end of a six-week trial. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his Russian counterpart on Thursday held the first private, face-to-face exchange between a U.S. cabinet member and a top Kremlin official since the invasion, and Mr. Blinken said he used the encounter to demand that Russia end its war on Ukraine. Mr. Blinken told Mr. Lavrov that the United States was committed to defending Ukraine “for as long as it takes.” The death toll from Tuesday's train crash in Greece has increased to 57. Rail workers held a one-day strike on Thursday following the disaster, blaming government neglect. More than 2,000 people protested for a second day in Athens and Thessaloniki, shocked by the disaster near the city of Larissa. Scotland has become the first country in the world to stop its hospitals using the anaesthetic desflurane because of the threat it poses to the environment. NHS data suggests the gas, used to keep people unconscious during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide. Wildfires in boreal forests in the Arctic circle released a record amount of CO2 in 2021. If it continues, the trend threatens to make fighting climate change even harder. @0406z "The Newsroom" begins. Backyard fence antenna, Etón e1XM. 250kW, beamAz 315°, bearing 63°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 15359KM from transmitter at Talata Volonondry. Local time: 2158.

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Let that sink in. A bunch of middle-aged men and women who have spent their entire careers on the wrong end of barked orders about what to do and when to do it have seized ownership of their own workplace and their own working lives. They became their own bosses. And they immediately align themselves to principles of the purest equality possible.

“Before, I was doing only one thing and had no idea what the others were doing,” is how Dimitris Koumatsioulis remembers the factory when he started in 2004. And now? “We’re all united. We have forgotten the concept of ‘I’ and can function collectively as ‘we’.”

The other massive change that has taken place is between the factory and its neighbours. When the workers “recuperated” their workplace (to use the local term), they could only do so with the help of Thessaloniki locals. Whenever representatives of the former owners came to requisition their equipment, as a court had given them permission to do, hundreds of residents would form a human chain in front of the plant (I contacted lawyers for Viome for comment but, despite assurances, no statement was forthcoming).

When the workers consulted the local community about what they should start to produce, one request was to stop making building chemicals. They now largely manufacture soap and eco-friendly household detergents: cleaner, greener and easier on their neighbours’ noses.

[justforbooks]

Giorgos or George Seferis, the pen name of Georgios Seferiades was born on March 13 1900. He was a Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service, culminating in his appointment as Ambassador to the UK, a post which he held from 1957 to 1962.

Seferis was born in Vourla near Smyrna in Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire (now İzmir, Turkey). His father, Stelios Seferiadis, was a lawyer, and later a professor at the University of Athens, as well as a poet and translator in his own right. He was also a staunch Venizelist and a supporter of the demotic Greek language over the formal, official language (katharevousa). Both of these attitudes influenced his son. In 1914 the family moved to Athens, where Seferis completed his secondary school education. He continued his studies in Paris from 1918 to 1925, studying law at the Sorbonne. While he was there, in September 1922, Smyrna/Izmir was taken by the Turkish Army after a two-year Greek military campaign on Anatolian soil. Many Greeks, including Seferis's family, fled from Asia Minor. Seferis would not visit Smyrna again until 1950; the sense of being an exile from his childhood home would inform much of Seferis's poetry, showing itself particularly in his interest in the story of Odysseus. Seferis was also greatly influenced by Kavafis, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

He returned to Athens in 1925 and was admitted to the Royal Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the following year. This was the beginning of a long and successful diplomatic career, during which he held posts in England (1931–1934) and Albania (1936–1938). He married Maria Zannou ('Maro') on April 10, 1941 on the eve of the German invasion of Greece. During the Second World War, Seferis accompanied the Free Greek Government in exile to Crete, Egypt, South Africa, and Italy, and returned to liberated Athens in 1944. He continued to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held diplomatic posts in Ankara, Turkey (1948–1950) and London (1951–1953). He was appointed minister to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq (1953–1956), and was Royal Greek Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1961, the last post before his retirement in Athens. Seferis received many honours and prizes, among them honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Cambridge (1960), Oxford (1964), Thessaloniki (1964), and Princeton (1965).

In 1936, Seferis published a translation of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his eminent lyrical writing, inspired by a deep feeling for the Hellenic world of culture." Seferis was the first Greek to receive the prize in 1963 (followed later by Odysseas Elytis, who became a Nobel laureate in 1979). But in his acceptance speech, Seferis chose rather to emphasise his own humanist philosophy, concluding: "When on his way to Thebes Oedipus encountered the Sphinx, his answer to its riddle was: 'Man'. That simple word destroyed the monster. We have many monsters to destroy. Let us think of the answer of Oedipus." While Seferis has sometimes been considered a nationalist poet, his 'Hellenism' had more to do with his identifying a unifying strand of humanism in the continuity of Greek culture and literature. The other five finalists for the prize that year were W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda (1971 winner), Samuel Beckett (1969 winner), Yukio Mishima and Aksel Sandemose.

His house at Pangrati district of central Athens, just next to the Panathinaiko Stadium of Athens, still stands today at Agras Street.

There are commemorative blue plaques on two of his London homes – 51 Upper Brook Street, and at 7 Sloane Avenue.

In 1999, there was a dispute over the naming of a street in İzmir Yorgos Seferis Sokagi due to continuing ill-feeling over the Greco-Turkish War in the early 1920s.

In 2004, the band Sigmatropic released "16 Haiku & Other Stories," an album dedicated to and lyrically derived from Seferis's work. Vocalists included recording artists Laetitia Sadier, Alejandro Escovedo, Cat Power, and Robert Wyatt. Seferis's famous stanza from Mythistorema was featured in the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games:

I woke with this marble head in my hands; It exhausts my elbows and I don't know where to put it down. It was falling into the dream as I was coming out of the dream. So our life became one and it will be very difficult for it to separate again.

Stephen King quotes several of Seferis's poems in epigraphs to his 1975 novel Salem's Lot.

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🌷 & 🍃 for ari

"He appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him, and on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe." -   Homeric Hymn 7 to Dionysus

🌷 a time my muse said they loved yours.

Ikaros was in another continent when he got the call. The trickster recognized the number immediately as Andreas’s biological father. Drawing a distinction between the two felt important, because Ikaros did not consider puffed up suit to be any real relation to him. Phillppos Diakos was made of hot air and oppression, overbearing and certain to try and sculpt his children in his own image. Unyielding and relentless. Ikaros truly grew to hate him even before the breadth of his memories had returned. 

His real father was a craftsmen, whose hands were worn and scarred and practiced over years of carving. Ikaros had long lost the memory of his face, but the laughter that had filled their home, had ebbed over hills, that was something that the trickster would never forget. 

“What do you want?” Ikaros had asked, his voice narrow with contempt. “It’s Ari.” The man explained and there was nothing but silence from the trickster’s end for several seconds. “I’m on my way.” 

A plane with two transfer and a cab ride later, and Ikaros was at the hospital, looking for directions to his brother’s private room. 

“He actually showed up.”

Ikaros recognized the sharp voice of Philip Diakos and set his eyes upon him at once, by now he knew the details of what had happened, knew what the pressures that the Diakos name had done to his baby brother. To Ari. He locked eyes with Philip first, then Penelope, Andreas’s mother. 

“You’ve some nerve speaking to me that way.” Ikaros approached, “When we both know full well your fucking son is in there because of you.” His words were sharp, severe, he pointed to Ari’s room as he shouted loudly in the hall but none besides Philip seemed effected. 

“Me? You walked out on this family and your brother goes to shit, so whose really to blame you pu-” Philip did not get the chance to finish his sentence, Ikaros’s fist connected with his jaw and the two were brawling in the hallway moments later. Penelope was yelling for Philip to stop, screaming that she wanted to know what was wrong with her husband. 

Invisible to Andreas’s mother, Ikaros leaned against the wall of the corridor and watched as Philip wrestled with himself on the floor and threw himself against a med cart. He screamed all manner of obscenities before security arrived to escort them both from the hospital, without missing a beat, Ikaros slipped into Ari’s room. That would keep them from Ari’s room for the foreseeable future, his brother needed to rest, recover, and Ikaros was sure that his parents were not helping. 

Ikaros felt his breath hitch in his throat at the sight of his brother, his hollowed frame, eyes that appeared sunken like a grave. He knew the look, had been responsible for driving people to even further edges, had laughed at their misery. But Ari was family, at least in this life, and he was good, and kind. They had had years together, and for so long, Ari had been all the trickster had. He confided in his baby brother his haunted dreams, how he could trick others into seeing what he wanted. Ikaros would laugh and make flowers bloom, cry and bend trees to reach towards him. 

The trickster pulled a chair from the corner and sat at his brother’s bedside, he held the human’s hand in his own and promised:

 “I love you Ari, and I swear - I will always protect you.”

🍃 a time my muse left home.

“If you walk out that door don’t you EVER come back!” Philippos Diakos had yelled, “Andreas!” He shouted, and Ikaros could only roll his eyes, he was once more trapped in the body of an eighteen year old boy, whose father believed he could control him. Ikaros ignored the man as he headed for the door with his suitcase. The larger man gripped his arm and tried to force his son to face him, in a flash Philip was brought to his knees, a concealed blade held to his throat as Ikaros glowered at him from above. 

There was a scream as Penelope looked on, Ikaros glanced at his once-mother and saw Ari watching from behind her. He smirked and looked at Philip, 

“I’ve killed men for less. Touch me and you’ll burn.” Ikaros promised, he pulled open the door and headed out of the home onto the streets of Thessaloniki, the world had changed even in the last eighteen years since he had left it. The internet was a huge deal now. 

“Andreas!” Ikaros turned at the sound of Ari’s voice, he pulled from his mother’s house and ran across the yard towards Ikaros. Reflexively the trickster dropped his suitcase and felt his arms fold around his younger brother. “Don’t go.” Ari pleaded, but Ikaros only sighed. 

“I must.” “Why?” “You wouldn’t understand.” “Then explain it to me - I thought, you said you were going to be a lawyer like Dad.” “That man is not my father, and either of them are hardly parents to you.” Ikaros breezed, his brows narrowed on the two who still stood on the porch. “There is a lot that I need to do, that I must do, attending college - law school, neither of those things fit in with my plan.”

“And me?” Ari asked, eyes full.  “You will always be my brother, you have my number, I’ll keep it active so you and I can keep in touch. These people-” he looked back to Philip and Penelope, “they are no good for you, when you’re old enough, come find me.” “So you’re just going to leave?” “That’s the power of free will Ari, there is nothing tying us here, to them, to Thessaloniki, the world is a big place, and I want to see all of it. Experience every corner, and you should too.” Ikaros did not want to leave Ari, but neither could he remain, he had resourced to acquire, and no desire to remain among the human parents that still wished to call him Andreas. 

“When will I see you again?”

“Whenever you need me.”

[whatsonmedia]

Film Friday: 5 movie selections of the week!

The movies in this week's Film Friday mix genres like science fiction, action comedy, thrill, and adventure drama comedy. Get ready to make your weekend worthwhile by watching some of the best movies that WhatsOn editors have chosen for you. 1. Amsterdam The 2022 period comedy-thriller movie Amsterdam was written, produced, and directed by David O. Russell. The international cast, which includes Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, and others, is led by Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington. The plot centers on three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and a lawyer—who are implicated in the enigmatic death of a retired U.S. general and get caught up in the Business Plot, a 1933 political conspiracy in the United States. On October 7, 2022, it was made available in the US by 20th Century Studios. https://youtu.be/GLs2xxM0e78 2. Halloween Ends The 2022 American slasher movie Halloween Ends was written by Chris Bernier, Danny McBride, Paul Brad Logan, and David Gordon Green. It is the conclusion of the trilogy of follow-up movies that started with the 2018 film and is the sequel to Halloween Kills (2021), the thirteenth entry in the Halloween franchise. This trilogy's concluding film features a terrifying end to the Michael Myers and Laurie Strode saga. The final installment of David Gordon Green's Halloween sequel trilogy, in which Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode battles Michael Myers for the last time—presumably—pulls into second place, not far behind Black Adam. Halloween Ends had its world premiere on October 11, 2022 at Beyond Fest in Los Angeles before Universal Pictures distributed it in theaters nationwide on October 14, 2022. https://youtu.be/s0vtbxLa-N8 3. Eternal Spring In 2022, Jason Loftus' Canadian documentary, titled Eternal Spring (Chinese :), will be released. The movie focuses on Changchun's broadcast television stations being taken over by Falun Gong in 2002 and China's ongoing persecution of ethnic and religious minorities. It is based on animation by Chinese artist Daxiong. In March 2002, followers of the banned spiritual organization Falun Gong took control of a state TV station in China. Their intention was to refute the government's account of their method. Following this, police raids take place all around Changchun City, forcing Falun Gong practitioner and comic book illustrator Daxiong to leave. On March 15, 2022, the movie had its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. After then, it was shown at the 2022 Hot Docs. https://youtu.be/5XpGpbaiz4Q 4. Doctor G Anubhuti Kashyap (making her directorial debut) is the director of the 2022 Indian Hindi-language medical college comedy film Doctor G, which is also produced by Junglee Pictures. The movie, which also stars Sheeba Chaddha, Rakul Preet Singh, Shefali Shah, and Ayushmann Khurrana, centers on a male gynecologist's struggles. The film Doctor G follows Uday Gupta's comical tribulations as the only male student in the gynecology department. His hesitancy causes mayhem, confusion, humor, and ultimately, a strong sense of brotherhood among his pupils. On October 14, 2022, it was released in theaters. https://youtu.be/XJrRrMCEmp8 5. Babli Bouncer Madhur Bhandarkar is the director of the 2022 Bollywood drama film Babli Bouncer. Tamannaah Bhatia will be portrayed as a female bouncer in Babli Bouncer. The various facets of this trade are also shown in the film. The movie follows Babli Bouncer, a unique story of a female bouncer (Tamannaah Bhatia). It examines the numerous dimensions of the typically male-dominated field. It debuted on Disney+ Hotstar on September 23, 2022. https://youtu.be/uShGv52y6no Read the full article

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Lawyer of Alleged Crypto Launderer Vinnik Calls on Russia to Discuss Prisoner Swap With US

A lawyer representing Russian IT specialist Alexander Vinnik has urged the government in Moscow to discuss a potential exchange of prisoners with the United States, where he was recently extradited. The French legal expert is convinced only a return to his homeland could save Vinnik who has deteriorating health after solitary confinement in France and hunger strikes in Greece.

Vinnik’s Lawyer Asks Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to Start Negotiations With Washington

One of the lawyers of Alexander Vinnik, alleged operator of BTC-e who has been accused of laundering over $4 billion through the now defunct cryptocurrency exchange, has urged Russian authorities to negotiate adding his client to a possible prisoner swap deal with Washington. Frederic Belot, a member of Vinnik’s defense team who represented him in French courts, has issued his call in a letter addressed to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Reuters reported on Monday after seeing the correspondence. “Now the only thing that can save Alexander is for the Russian Federation to enter into negotiations with the American authorities within the framework of the exchange of prisoners between the countries mentioned,” Belot stresses in the letter emailed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. The department declined to comment. The move comes after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed in July that the American side had made Moscow a “substantial offer” for the release of U.S. citizens currently held in Russia. Among them, basketball star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan. Alexander Vinnik was arrested on a U.S. warrant in 2017, in the Greek city of Thessaloniki where he arrived on a summer vacation with his family. After reviewing several extradition requests, including one from Russia, Greek authorities decided to first hand him over to France where he recently served a five-year sentence for money laundering. French authorities returned the Russian to Greece which quickly transferred him to the United States in early August. Then he appeared in a federal court in San Francisco and was reportedly denied release on bail. His defense had warned earlier that an extradition to America would make him a hostage of the tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Vinnik Said to Suffer From Memory Loss Due to Prolonged Isolation in French Prison

Frederic Belot emphasized that Alexander Vinnik has repeatedly denied and continues to deny all the charges against him. The lawyer insisted that after his imprisonment in solitary confinement in France, the 43-year-old Russian suffers from partial loss of memory due to the stress of isolation, as established by psychiatrists. The U.S. Department of Justice describes the crypto exchange allegedly owned and operated by Vinnik, BTC-e, as a “significant cybercrime and online money laundering entity” which provided services to criminal actors. He can now receive up to 55 years in prison, based on the charges against him. “This term for Alexander is tantamount to life,” Belot warned. Reuters remarks that Russia has repeatedly indicated it’s involved in “quiet diplomacy” with the U.S. regarding a prisoner swap. Another Russian citizen recently extradited to America, the 29-year-old co-founder of coin trading platforms Coyote Crypto and Eggchange, Denis Dubnikov, has been accused of laundering ransomware payments in cryptocurrency on behalf of cybercriminals targeting hospitals in the United States. Do you think Russia and the U.S. will reach an agreement to exchange prisoners? Tell us in the comments section below. Read the full article

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It’s not for everyone.

2018 was one of the best and worst years of my life.

As I started off the 2017/18 season in Slovakia Eurocup, everything was going great. Traveling to a new country every other week for games, a competitive schedule, cool teammates, weekend road trip adventures. Life was good. As matter of fact, life was great. I was enjoying the peaceful, simple life that Slovakia offered.

In Slovakia, part of the visa application process includes gathering individual criminal record checks of everywhere you have lived in the past 4 years (before your mind starts wandering, the answer is no...continue reading🙃). In my case, this included Canada, United States, Greece, and Poland. After you’ve obtained all of your records, you have a 3 month validation window to apply for a visa. Prior to leaving home for Slovakia and after a lot of paperwork, I was able to secure 3 out of the 4 records- all that was left was Greece. Fast forward to mid November and mid season, my Greek papers finally arrived in Slovakia. “Finally, now my visa can be issued,” I thought. Not quite. Because it had been over 3 months, my three previous records had “expired” and were no longer valid. We had to restart the whole application process from scratch. Cross country road trips to Poland, early embassy visits in Bratislava, a scramble of paperwork and phone calls. As luck would have it, we also had an even more pressing issue on our hands. The maximum length of a short-term stay in the Slovak Republic cannot exceed a total of 180 days... we were nearing 150. Time was against my side and my papers were put on a rush. All I could do was wait.

After I returned from Christmas holidays in Florida & Greece, everything changed. My reentry to Slovakia without a visa delivered another set of problems and my struggles increased. After I finally finessed my my way back into the country *see previous post🙃, I was relieved to finally make it back to Ruzomberok. I was even more relieved to hear that all of my documents had arrived and were being processed. Although I was just over 180 days, I was sure there would be some way around it considering the circumstances of my situation. Well, less than a week later my naivety slapped me in my in face.... my application was denied.

I was devastated. I loved my team and I didn’t want to leave. My team and I exhausted all options in attempts of an appeal. Even with the help of the club’s lawyers and president, the law enforcement would not budge. I couldn’t believe it; I had never heard of anything like this before. After our appeal was rejected, I was faced with a choice. I could stay to finish out the season without a visa, crossing my fingers I wouldn’t be deported, or I could leave- two unfortunate and unfavourable options for both sides. My team staff and I carefully discussed my situation and the choice was left up to me. At the same time, I learned about a former American player that was (literally) deported a few years back for a similar situation. After hearing this, I knew that I couldn’t stay. Not only would I be playing with fire, but I would be jeopardizing my career. The risk did not outweigh the reward and I made the decision to leave Slovakia. Less than two weeks later, I found myself back in Greece playing for a new team to finish out the season with in Thessaloniki. Unfortunately, when it rains it pours and my bad luck continued to follow. Underwhelming living conditions, a losing record, and some other issues left me feeling emotionally drained. After playing for a few months, financial issues within the team forced my coach and I to resign the last month of the season. And with that... my third season overseas officially came to an end.

Although last year was one of the toughest I’ve faced, ironically enough, it was also one of the best years of my life. Even though a lot of things didn’t go in my favour last year, a lot of things did.

In 9 months, I travelled to over 10 different European countries- Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Turkey, Russia, Greece, France, and Italy. I met some amazing new teammates, reunited with old teammates, and made some unforgettable memories. Post season, I hosted a boys and girls basketball camp in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy; a beautiful fishing town minutes away from Portofino and Cinque Terre. My best friend and I lituated our way through Athens, the Greek Islands, and Italy... leaving no carbs behind (pics below). The summer continued on a high note, bouncing between home and Portland to train and spend time with friends and family. I also spent some time in California- from up in the bay down to LA- and had the opportunity to coach at Klay Thompson’s basketball camp in Orange County. Although a lot of things might have gone wrong in 2018, a lot of things went right.

After a tumultuous season and the ups and downs that followed, I needed stability going into the 2018-19 season. When my former team from Athens reached out, I felt as though I was given a sign. After playing for Dafni my second year overseas, I had one of my most successful seasons professionally. I loved my team, I loved the city, I loved gyros and gyros loved me back. During the past four years overseas, Athens has made itself my home away from home. Once again, Greece found its way to mark itself as the next chapter in my book.

I’ve been back in Athens since September now and I couldn’t be more content. Our season is off to a solid start, currently sitting 4th in league and undefeated in the Greek Cup. Playing a tight knit rotation, we have a strong chemistry on/off the floor and if we stick to the script, this year could be something special. I’m joined by two younger Americans (I’m a vet now!?), and we share an apartment and team car together. This season, I am living in Piraeus, a beautiful seaside neighborhood near the port of Athens. South of the city center, Pireas is full of v cute cafes/bars/restaurants nestled along the sea. After living in the congestion of the center my previous year, the tranquil seaside lifestyle is definitely more my vibe. When the weather is right, there’s a very good chance you will find me down near the sea (only a 5 min walk from our apt), grabbing a coffee, laying out, or just relaxing/recharging between practices. I’ve been fully taking advantage of our new location, so much so I even asserted myself into the senior citizen swimming group a few mornings lol. Off the court, life is pretty hard to beat in Athens. Good weather, good people, good food; there’s not much more I can ask for.

After everything 2018 threw at me, I am grateful for it all; the good, the bad, and the ugly. I grew as a player and a person, learned many lessons, and came out of it all as a stronger individual. Even though life hit me hard, I got back up. The highs, the lows, and the in betweens are all part of what make us human and they are all part of our journey through life. My personal experience overseas has been a whirlwind of ups and downs; delivering some of the very best times of my life and also some of the hardest times of my life. As cliche as it may sound, I truly believe everything happens for a reason and a silver lining can be found in every situation if you look hard enough. The past four years have tested me more than I could imagine, and I’m thankful for them all.

I did not share my story for sympathy, I did not tell my story for attention; I told my story because life is not always easy. In a society oversaturated by perfectionism, we forget that there is power in vulnerability. When you look on Instagram, it’s easy to think professional overseas athletes are “living the dream,” a phrase we hear all too often. The truth is, yes, there are many highs, but there can also be many lows. These lows may not be making the superficial IG “highlight real” but that doesn’t mean that they are not happening. Nobody’s life is perfect no matter how social media makes it look. It’s easy to compare behind rose-colored glasses, but in reality- there is another side of “the dream” that people do not see. Two-a-days, language barriers, 10 hour bus rides, underwhelming living conditions, injuries, team financial drama, all day Netflix marathons. Nobody sees the struggles we go through off the the court; the isolation, the boredom, the loneliness. The reality is, playing overseas is not for the weak or faint hearted; I’ve seen overseas life break even the strongest people- it’s not for everyone. That’s exactly why I’m compelled to share the raw moments, the unfiltered moments, the good the bad and the ugly- without the airbrush.

With that..... 2018 has officially come to a close. A year full of many struggles and many blessing, I am grateful for them all and would not change a thing. Everything has aligned itself to bring me to where I am today, and in this moment, life is good. To this crazy thing called life, thank you.... I am exactly where I’m meant to be.

[atlaese]

I mean a ~real cinephile would tell you that it does nt matter how many films you watch, is the quality of the films. it's all a matter of perspective, I can't watch movies from the 40s with the stop motion it bores me, 20s like chaplin and buster Keaton are fun though ao I stick to modern cinema. From 60s and beyond. And american westerns oh boy. In every cinephile list theu got a bunch if these and I'm like who???? Ever??? Anw, yes I've been to festivals, we got the athens film festival here and one for french cinema and of course right now is the international exhibition of things art in Thessaloniki. I wish I could go once. So far my favourite is Spike Jonze because he is both chaotic and serious but he has only made five films so I really wanna kill him aswell. And Paul Thomas Anderson. I like the vulnerability and the realness mostly but I like fun movies too. Really movies rarely piss me off unleas they are all macho macho.

I'm sure Matt is reading fashion magazines because a) is fun b) i decided that he does c) why not?. But seriously lawyers must dress the part. It's really important business. Karen's fashion through the show btw has been great.

I agree! There’s a lot of bad movies out there so, yes mostly quality is important! But what i feel from you is that you also just have a lot of knowledge about it? Concerning backstory and just everything around producing a film which is so cool! Oh lord, yeah westerns aren’t for me either! Some genres are just too… much for me haha!

But yes, i can’t watch older movies either! But for me thats like 80’s and above ahahah! Also like over the top action movies like everything tom cruise is in i also skip lmao.

Anyways, movie festivals sound like so much fun! Especially because you get a kind of ‘scoop’ on new stuff they’re putting out (i might go watch dune if it get’s good reviews!) + just the grandeur around the event sounds so nice.

I don’t know either of those men (really… who am i…i thought i knew a lot about stuff haha.) anyway, sounds very interesting! People with very few movie credits always make such good ones, so i can believe you want to kill them for not making any more, haha!

Well 😌 you decided he reads them so it is now canon. Matt ‘fashion king’ murdock is in the house people, and he won’t leave any time soon! But yes! If a lawyer looks good i automatically put more trust in them, so i’d hope matt dress fancy if i ever were i need of his services (although i hope he gets there on time, for once). Karen would def help him out and make sure he stays on top of all the trends, as a friend should!!

[anarchistnewsdaily]

“Comrade Konstantinos Giagtzoglou was transferred to the hospital today after a serious fainting incident he had while resting in his cell. The officials of the Justice Department informed the comrade’s lawyers that the council which is going to decide whether Dinos will be transferred permanently to Korydallos prison or not, will meet on Friday, 4 days after the promised day (Monday). Dinos will be on hunger strike for 9 days and on thirst strike for 5 days on Friday.

The struggle committee of Korydallos prison issued a statement informing the Justice Department that if the council doesn’t meet on Friday, there will be prison rebelions all across the country.

The central building of the National University of Athens remains occupied and another series of actions and attacks have taken place:

About 250 anarchists marched through the central streets of Athens yesterday in solidarity with Dinos

A group of anarchists smashed several shop windows on Ermou street (it’s the central comercial street of Athens)

Α group of anarchists raised barricades in Egnatia avenue in the center of Thessaloniki

A group of anarchists blocked a central street in Patras

A group called “Workers of the Night” torched a private security car and a diplomatic vehicle on 21/02 and 25/02 in Thessaloniki

A group called “Anarchist Fraction for Political Self-defence” smashed the windows of two banks on 27/02 and on 28/02 in Athens.

A group called “Informal Anarchist Network – Commando Haris Temperekindis” torched a private security car and attacked the central offices of the same private security firm (G4S) with Molotov cocktails on 27/02 in Athens.

A group called “Anarchist Cells in Solidarity and Conspiracy” torched an ATM, threw 10 Molotov cocktails at a branch of the Agriculture Department, smashed the windows of a super market and torched the personal vehicle of a cop on 28/02 in Patras.

A group of 40 anarchists occupied the offices of “Avgri (Dawn)” newspaper which is the official newspaper of Syriza, for a couple of hours in Athens.

A group of anarchists canceled the speech of N.Voutsis, current president of the Greek parliament and one of the most well-known members of Syriza, by blocking the entrance of the hotel where the speech was scheduled to take place.”

[denisehil0]

1 migrant dead, 6 injured in car chase and crash in Greece

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A car carrying seven Pakistani migrants believed to have just crossed the land border from Turkey crashed in northern Greece, killing one man and injuring the other six passengers, police said Friday.

Police said the car failed to stop at a police checkpoint on a highway in northeastern Greece late Thursday night. The migrants, all from Pakistan, are believed to have entered Greece clandestinely and been heading to the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

Officers chased the car, whose driver lost control and crashed, overturning the vehicle on the highway, authorities said. The driver, a 20-year-old Syrian who did not have a driver’s license, was treated for minor injuries and arrested as a migrant trafficker.

Police said the car had been reported stolen earlier this month in Thessaloniki.

Thousands of migrants attempt to enter Greece each year, most hoping to travel on toward more prosperous European countries. Although the majority head by boat to Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast, many also cross the land border with Turkey.

The Associated Press

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