Lakis Lazopoulos

A crowd of relatives, friends, and people from the artistic community gathered at Zografou Cemetery to bid farewell to Dani Katranidis, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 75.

First presented in 405 BC, Aristophanes' comedy "The Frogs," which tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the state of Athens's tragedians, travels to the underworld to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead, will be staged at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on August 10 and 11, starting at 9 p.m.

The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government agenda may be weighed down by harsh negotiations with Greece’s creditors (EC, ECB, ESM and IMF), however that’s not to say that the government ministers aren’t taking time out from their busy schedule to socialize.

Comedian Lakis Lazopoulos, probably the best known Greek satirist in the country, said his final farewells on Monday to his beloved mother, who died over the weekend.

Ririka Lazopoulou, who was often mentioned in her son’s stand-up routines as the “typical Greek mother” passed away in the morning of Saturday at an Athens hospital.

The deputy prosecutor responsible for investigating allegations by Independent Greeks MP Pavlos Haikalis that he was offered a bribe in order to back the government's presidential candidate has concluded that there is no basis for criminal prosecution.

Comedian Lakis Lazopoulos is due to give evidence today as part of the investigation into claims by Independent Greeks that there was an attempt to bribe one of their MPs.

The lawmaker in question, Pavlos Haikalis, is alleged to have asked for Lazopoulos’s help in improving the quality of the recordings of the two meetings he had with the alleged middleman, Giorgos Apostolopoulos.

The prime minister’s office let it be known on Friday night that Antonis Samaras would be taking legal action against the Independent Greeks party after its leader, Panos Kammenos, and MP Pavlos Haikalis alleged that there was an attempt to bribe the latter so he would vote for the government’s presidential candidate.

Independent Greeks deputy Pavlos Haikalis claimed on Friday that an unidentified individual tried to bribe him to vote in favor of the coalition's candidate in the first round of presidential elections earlier this week.

Leftist opposition SYRIZA on Wednesday announced another six of its candidates for next month’s European Parliament elections, following a stormy session of the party’s political secretariat, leaving the final two of its 42 hopefuls to be finalized in the coming days.