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Helexpo's CEO to join UFI boardHelexpo's CEO to join UFI board The CEO of the Greek exhibition organiser Helexpo SA, Themis Kartsiotis, was elected to join the board of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) in 2009-2010 during the UFI Congress currently underway in Istanbul, which ends on November 15. 2nd Property Exhibition begins Friday The 2nd Property Exhibition will open its gates at the Helexpo Palace trade fair centre in the Athens suburb of Maroussi on Friday, with 65 companies from Greece and abroad participating, and run until Sunday. The 2nd Real Estate Conference is also being organised within the international trade fair and will take place on Saturday, during which the results of an Athens Economics University study on the real estate market in Greece and trends in 2009 will be presented. Businessman Sokrates Kokkalis given award in New York NEW YORK (ANA-MPA/P. Panagiotou) Businessman Sokrates Kokkalis was given the Fidipidios Award, being the founder of the Foundation bearing the same name and of the Programme of the same name at the Kennedy School of Government of the Harvard University, during an event held at the Harvard Club in New York on Wednesday night (local time). Receiving the award, Kokkalis stressed that all his life he always did "what was right for the common good." Volanakis painting sets record in Sotheby's 'Greek' auction LONDON (ANA-MPA/L Tsirigotakis) A work by Greek painter Constantine Volanakis, titled "The Arrival of Karaiskakis at Faliron", was sold for a record 1.97 million euros on Tuesday at a Sotheby's auction house "Greek Sale". Volanakis' oil on canvas depicting 1821 Greek Revolution hero George Karaiskakis sailing with is fleet into Faliron for the liberation of Athens from the Turkish seige brought in a record price for a painting by a Greek artist. The record was previously held by a painting by Nikiforos Lytras titled "Festival in Megara", which was sold for 1,138,396 euros by Sotheby's in its November 22, 2006 session. Volanakis' painting was bought by a Greek international art collector who wishes to remain anonymous, but a Sotheby's spokesperson said that the work would remain in Greece. Tuesday's "Greek Sale" brought in a total 7.429 million euros. Other paintings sold at Tuesday's session included Theodoros Rallis' "Marionettes in the Harem", which brought in 589,000 euros, Nicholas Gyzis' "The Neighbors" (The Gossips) for 442,000 euros, an untitled Yannis Moralis work for 229,000 euros, Georgios Jakobides' "Grandpa's Favorite" for 221,000 euros, and another Volanakis painting titled "Mending the Nets" for 221,000 euros. Thessaloniki mayor to participate in Balcinet meeting in Sarajevo Thessaloniki Mayor Vassilis Papageorgopoulos will depart on Thursday for Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, as the head of a municipal delegation expected to participate at the 9th International Friendship and Cooperation meeting amongst major Balkan cities' mayors. The meeting is organised within the framework of the Balkan cities network (BALCINET). The inter-balkan municipalities cooperation, EU prospects of the western Balkan states, developing children-friendly cities, minorities rights, migrant policy and environment issues, will be discussed at the meeting. Papageorgopoulos said the next BALCINET meeting will take place in Thessaloniki.
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