Iannis Carras

Iannis Carras is a economic and social historian of the 18th century Balkan and Russian worlds. He is active in Greek NGOs and has been a parliamentary candidate in the Athens region for the Greek Gre

Iannis Carras

And then they began to speak with tongues. And the multitude came together, and were confounded, because every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all

By Iannis Carras

/ 4 May 2011

If Greece's crisis has political roots, it will have a solution in wide-ranging institutional reform

Greece isn’t working… Reforms need to turn a people that has accustomed itself to practices of excessive consumption courtesy of EU largess, into a nation of creators and producers, actively participating not only in the economic field but also in the creation of communal welfare and the preservat

By Iannis Carras

/ 15 Dec 2010

Orthodoxy: symbols for the new Russia

Patriarch Aleksii died on 5 December 2008. His successor, the new head of the Russian Orthodox Church, will be elected by the Church Council. Both these events have provoked considerable

By Iannis Carras

/ 26 Jan 2009