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The publisher Stavros Psycharis died at the age of 77

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Stavros Psycharis was a Greek publisher, journalist and businessman and president of the Lambrakis Journalistic Organization (DOL) from 2009 to 2017.

Stavros Psycharis breathed his last at the age of 77.

Stavros Psycharis (Athens, 1945) was a Greek publisher, journalist and businessman. He was President of the Lambrakis Journalistic Organization (DOL) from 2009 to 2017.

He was born in Athens and his uncle was Kostas Loules, a leader and member of parliament of the KKE. He began his journalistic career in 1964 in the left-wing newspaper “Democratic Change” (while also writing for the Hellenic-Soviet Union) to be hired during the dictatorship as the parliamentary editor of the newspaper Ethnos. Since 1972, he has been working at the Lambraki Journalism Organization (DOL), initially as a journalist and then as political editor of the newspaper Ta Nea.

From the autumn of 1983 he was the director of the To Vima newspaper. In 1996, he was appointed Governor of Mount Athos by the Simitis government, a position he held until 2001. In September of the same year, he assumed the duties of general manager and from September 2003 of the managing director and vice president of the Group, he participated in the board of directors of the publishing companies of group USD He was president of the Lambrakis Foundation (formerly the Lambrakis Research Foundation), a position he assumed after the death of the foundation’s founder Christos Lambrakis in 2009,[5] while he is elected president and managing director of the Group, taking over himself, in addition to the publication of Vimas and the publication of the newspaper Ta Nea. He was honored on June 20, 2010 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople for his contribution during the period in which he was Governor of Mount Athos with the office of Grand Notary of the Ecumenical Throne.

He had two sons from his first marriage, Panagiotis (christened by Byronas Stamatopoulos) and Andreas Psycharis (christened by Andreas Papandreou), while he is engaged in a second marriage to the journalist and member of the Group’s Board of Directors Christina Tsoutsouras , with whom he had two daughters, Christina and Sofia.

Stavros Psycharis was one of the most powerful actors in the political, economic and media life of the country.

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