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However, the Greek Prime Minister did not consider closed banks a "catastrophe". They were the catalyst that, with proper usage, would push Greeks to ... new seas. The beginning of the end was on Sunday afternoon, the day of the referendum, when Athens received the first reports that Russia would rather not support the drachma. This was the reason for the "atmosphere of defeat" that Yanis Varoufakis sensed upon entering the Prime Minister's residence Maximou, filled with joy. The last hopes died away by Wednesday, 8 July, when the Greek Prime Minister spoke in the European Parliament. Then it became clear that "the state will collapse" without an agreement and he surrendered, disarmed, to Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Why the Greek-Russian flirtation ended so ingloriously?

What happened? Why the Greek-Russian flirtation ended ingloriously? According to one version, Russia had exchanged Athens for Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Almost simultaneously with the Greek referendum the leaders of the pro-Russian areas announced local elections in the autumn that were seen as a step towards their separation from Ukraine, without any meaningful response from Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande at that. This was a plan to strengthen Russian influence in Ukraine and analysts saw the long arm of pragmatics Leonid Reshetnikov behind it. And it was not only that. According to another point of view, the Russian veteran had saved another country, Greece, about which he knows so much ..."

Question of New Democracy MPs

The publication in the newspaper To Vima has provoked violent responses, the  result being a question in parliament submitted by 17 members of New Democracy. "Could this be true?" Adonis Georgiadis asked on his Twitter account. MEPs want the Greek Prime Minister to confirm or refute the information published. "According to the publication, the government of the Russian Federation had rejected the request for a loan at the last moment, thus leaving no alternative to you as a result of which you were forced to sign the Memorandum with the European Union and the European Central Bank", state the deputies.