Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation

Moscow announced on Tuesday that it is blocking access within Russia to the broadcasts of 81 media outlets from the European Union, including several from Greece and Cyprus.

The front-runner for the post of president of the embattled ERT state broadcasting company is due to address members of Parliament in Athens Tuesday.

The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) Choir, the Mary Kostantinidou Mixed Choir of Thessaloniki, and the ERT National Symphony Orchestra will be performing "Symphonic ABBA, Opus 2" (Alexios Priftis) and "The Queen Symphony" (Tolga Kashif), featuring enduring melodies from the two pop-rock groups which burst onto the music scene in the 1970s, at the Athens Concert Hall on Saturday, Novembe

Greek MPs have voted to reopen the state-owned, public radio and TV broadcaster ERT which was shut down in June 2013 amid harsh austerity measures.

The leftist government of PM Alexis Tsipras, elected in January, had vowed to end ERT's blackout that has gone on for nearly two years after budget restrictions forced the previous administration to close it down.