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Nefeli Publishing is hosting the group exhibition "Empty Chairs" at S22 (22 Smolenski) as part of the Year of Giannis Skarimpas, marking 40 years since the Greek author's death. Contemporary artists explore Skarimpas' themes through visual art. The exhibition features artwork alongside manuscripts from his archive. Admission is free.

Documents related to the settlement of Turks from abroad are the most accessed in the online document scanning system of state archives, officials told state-run Anadolu Agency on Aug. 18.

Maria Kamilaki, linguist and deputy head of the General Directorate of Electronic Administration, Library and Publications at the Hellenic Parliament gave Kathimerini a guided tour through the history of the library and its archives. The public will have access to this rich and valuable archival material as of September, when its digitization is completed. [Nikos Kokkalias]

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has selected 13 journalists, historians, artists and activists to receive grants to create small projects based on the archives of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague and domestic courts in former Yugoslav countries.

Romanian historians have signed an open letter protesting against the decision of the Romanian National Archives, ANR, to limit access to documents in the National Archival Fund.

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has launched a call for proposals for small projects by journalists, artists, historians and civil society activists covering topics related to the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and domestic courts in former Yugoslav countries that dealt with war crimes cases.

An exhibition of photographs of the Royal House of Romania and the Russian Imperial House from the end of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century opened on Tuesday in Brasov as part of a project in which the Brasov County Museum of History partnered with the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bucharest and three archives from Russia.

A man reads in one of three branches of the Greek Parliament's library, in the central Athens district of Kolonos, during a visit to the facility by a group of MPs, on Wednesday. The Lenorman Street branch is located in a former state tobacco plant that was built in 1927 and listed as a historic monument in 1989.

The protected archive of famous researcher, biographer and historian Taha Toros is now accessible online at ŞEHİR library archives, as his old photos have been digitalized as part of the “Istanbul Memory in Personal Archives” project. Click through to see 12 pictures from old Istanbul.

Turkey has opened the Foreign Ministry's archives to researchers. The ministry's archives since 1919 will be opened to professionals through a private password.

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Naci Koru announced the move in an article posted in his private blog http://nkoru.blogspot.com.tr/