http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/2 When Thanos or Asa decide to express a particular opinion concerning their magazine they will post it here, plus any other announcements about new developments and plans. Wed, 08 Feb 12 22:38:30 +0200 en http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8163 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:24:44 +0200 Christos Mouzeviris Our leaders are debating, going to summits trying to find a solution for the current economic crisis. They want to decide which way forward, what to do to save the euro and the European economy. The citizens are looking up to them desperately, in hope of http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8155 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:15:35 +0200 Newropeans-Magazine Despite sharp protests in Hungary itself and from the EU the right wing conservative government pushed a new media law through parliament, getting two thirds of the votes on 21.12.2010. The law intimidates journalists and bloggers and polarizes once again http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8106 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:51:13 +0200 Thanos Kalamidas Customary I should write my wishes and hopes for the New Year but an hour ago while talking with a friend from Greece he told me that the latest wish in Greece for the New Year is: Happy New Year 2011! Just stop there, do a step backwards and think again http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8097 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:25:41 +0200 Thanos Kalamidas Customary most of the magazines and media this time of the year go through the year\'s events and try to chose the persona or the events that impressed them most under the title \'persona of the year\' and Ovi magazine was no exception from its birth. How http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8084 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:53:50 +0200 Thanos Kalamidas These days have a special spirit at least for me that exist beyond religions and believe. Most likely an anthropologist would be much better than me to explain the meaning of the festivities that surround the Christmas period and a historian would be able http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8069 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:13:29 +0200 Thanos Kalamidas It is a whole week that I\'m trying to find the right words for Ovi magazine\'s seventh birthday and I have gone through all kinds of cliches but ...nothing really works. Seventh birthday, the lucky seven; seven the muses, seven the wanders, seven the con http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8066 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:13:18 +0200 Prof.Emanuel L. Paparella December 20 2011, marks the 7th anniversary of Ovi Magazine. I have contributed to the magazine for more than four years now, since May 2007, provoking debates at times but on the whole, I would hope, adding something to the rich intellectual vibrancy of http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8060 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:12:55 +0200 Jack Wellman Not only have I grown in the last seven years, so has Ovi Magazine. I can look back at some of the articles I have written in the last few years and now cringe with embarrassment. I am surprised that I wrote with such naivete. I suppose that I have http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/8005 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:25:30 +0200 The Ovi Team Finland\'s Independence Day is a national public holiday held on 6 December to celebrate Finland\'s declaration of independence from the Russian Empire. The movement for Finland\'s Independence started after the revolutions in Russia, caused by the distur http://www.ovimagazine.com/art/7918 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:13:40 +0200 Kourosh Ziabari U.S. President Barack Obama will be a lame duck next year and the officials in his administration, especially his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are hilariously doing their best to make sure that they haven\'t spared any effort to intervene in the int