World Cup: the sense of anticipation has gone
By John Richards I WAS going through Brazil’s World Cup squad for the upcoming tournament the other day and I couldn’t help feeling rather cheated...
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A chronicle of struggles, challenges, insults and vindication
By Nicos Rolandis There is a journey for all of us, a journey that marks and gives colour to our lives. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello...
Q&A’s on fees and funds
By Nicos Cotsapas In the last six months during which my articles have appeared in the Sunday Mail, I have received quite a few emails...
Russia’s Ukraine strategy
By Stelios Papadopoulos ON MAY 7 Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Pro-Russia groups in Eastern Ukraine to postpone the May 11 referendum on independence,...
Negotiating the miracle
By Johan Adler Can foreigners solve the Cyprus problem? The answer is, of course, an emphatic ‘No’. Why, then, were the two chief negotiators on...
Europe should atone for its sins
By John V. Whitbeck NOW that the American-monopolised “peace process” has expired, Europe should seize the initiative and try to do something useful for Israelis,...
Realpolitik arrives in Cyprus
By Eleni Meleagrou VICE President Joe Biden arrived in Cyprus yesterday, followed at some point by Secretary of State John Kerry. This intense U.S. interest...
Cyprus, the cavalry is coming!
By Max Gevers IN THE old Wild West, the sound of trumpets would herald that the cavalry was coming and desperate soldiers would be rescued...
The true value of leaning westwards
By Christos Stylianides A COLUMNIST, in an article about the discovery of significant quantities of natural gas in the Levantine basin, made the following astute...
Turkey still has a long way to go towards acknowledging genocide
KM Greg Sarkissian, president of the US-based Zoryan Research Institute, responds to comments made by Turkish prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, on April 23, the eve...
Markets still climbing the wall of worry
By Nicos Cotsapas ONE THIRD of 2014 is now history, and April actually mirrored how assets have performed year-to-date. That is, equities are largely flat...
What hope is there unless we clean out the filth?
By Alexis Galanos AFTER the unprecedented and punitive shock we experienced in March 2013, almost everyone – even the most cynical among us – believed...
Giving up is not an option
By Frank-Walter Steinmeier IN ODESSA last Friday, more than forty people died in a fire following a clash between two battling groups, which ended in...
Why the definition of NPLs in Cyprus is discriminatory
By Antonis Hadjichristodoulou BASED on our research, the swelling of non-performing loans (NPLs) in Cyprus in the past 12 months is largely due to the...
What is the government’s policy on the Cyprus problem?
By Stefanos Stefanou (former government spokesman ), THE recent provocative statements made by Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu again brought to the fore the tactics...
We all need to stand together, united for Ukraine
By John Koenig SINCE last November, the people of Ukraine have been striving to define their own future. In the process, they have become a...
Galatariotis Group has made genuine efforts within a hostile macro environment to fulfil its obligations
By Tasos Anastasiou The article by Hermes Solomon published in your newspaper on 13/4/2014 under the title “Murder most foul of the Cyprus Economy” has...
More hands-on approach needed for historical and cultural tourism
By Demetrios Tsouris Regarding the article on the environment by Antonis Loizou, (March 30.) linked together with a further article “Why is Cyprus Tourism Failing”,...
‘Near abroads’ in Cyprus and Ukraine
By Theo Kyriacou THE events in Kiev and Crimea over the last few weeks bear striking similarities to events in Cyprus in the 1960s and...
Vladimir Underwood
By Timothy Spyrou IT IS clear that, despite the howls of protest from the United States and Europe, Putin is going to get away with...
