Greece cancels negotiations with Russia over importing 450 infantry fighting vehicles. Media reports cite the increase in the estimated cost of the arms delivery, from 1.2 billion euros to 1.7 billion euros, as the main factor.
Actor Yorgos Foundas, most widely known for his roles in Never on Sunday and Stella, dies at the age of 85 after being hospitalized. Foundas had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Unions project wages will be pushed below 1984 levels as a result of the conditions of Greece’s bailout packages.
University students across Greece take to the streets in protest against the government’s planned education reforms, fearing this will lead to cost cuts in education and new tuition fees. Students say they were also acting in solidarity with British students, by taking their demonstration to the British Embassy in Athens.
Seventeen people are arrested on charges of trafficking in women during a coordinated police sweep in Athens, Lamia, Volos, Larissa, Thessaloniki, Florina and other Greek cities, with a similar investigation launched in Russia.
Seven handguns, three machine guns, boxes of bullets, grenades, 50 kilos of an explosive mixture, and 200 grams of TNT are found in a central Athens apartment by police during a raid. The cache of guns and explosives is believed to belong to one of two terrorist groups responsible for several attacks in recent years.
An investigation is launched into a railroad accident in which one person was killed and two were seriously wounded when a train derailed en route between Argos and Tripoli in the Peloponnese. Seven passengers and staff were on the train.
Prime Minister George Papandreou pledges to build a long-delayed mosque in Athens for Muslim residents, noting that failure to provide such a facility for over two decades was a ‘disgrace.’ He says a temporary official facility for Muslim services would be provided until the completion of a proper mosque, which he said his father had first promised when he was prime minister 25 years ago.
Parliament ratifies omnibus bill on implementing urgent measures for the Greek economy by a vote of 156 to 130.
Russians are the third largest group of tourists visiting Greece after Germans and the British. The number of Russian tourists visiting Greece in 2010 rose 150 per cent over the previous year to reach 320,000, according to Greek data.