I Vradyni, or simply Vradyni (, "The Evening"), is an

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-based nationally published weekly

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newspaper. It has a liberal approach to the economy and is a traditional right-wing political orientation. The newspaper is published by Entypoekdotiki

Political interactions

In 1973, ''Vradyni'' published an open letter by former Prime Minister

Konstantinos Karamanlis Konstantinos G. Karamanlis (, ; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998) was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic. A towering figure of Greek politics, his political caree ...

calling for the military regime to restore power to

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, with the result that the Greek judiciary issued warrants for the paper's publisher and editor. On 2 December 1973, the paper was shut down by the Greek military police for publishing an article critical of the then-government's lack of action on re-establishing parliamentary rule. In June 1988,

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bought the newspaper as part of silencing the critics of

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and his socialist government. Once the

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unraveled in 1989, Koskotas sold the newspaper.

References

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