He argues that he failed to make enough money from journalism. As he says, he belongs to the so-called “obrelists”, the people who at the time he was “wet” money he was holding an umbrella. He does not regret decisions he made during his professional course. He spoke of his wife and daughter, and he movedly remembered what happened at his father’s funeral. “From journalism I became rich in… feelings. I belong to the category of people who, when it rained money, I held an umbrella. I was given this opportunity and not just once. I didn’t make money, I don’t get bored,” the Municipality of Verikios argues in an interview he gave to One Channel, on Manos Niflis’ show. CORVERSE “Will you tell me… you have no obligations? And how does Sophia study four years in Yanna? Life is both expensive and difficult, yes.” “If you’re okay in life and a good person, you get good times. I don’t have money in banks. What should I do with boats and yachts?” the journalist adds. CORVERSE “With Pikia we have been together since Radical, four decades. I went one night to sleep at the sogagros’ house in Holargos and I never… left again.” “Our daughter, Sophia, brought luck, joy and satisfaction to our lives. It brought “glory”. He’s put the glasses on both of us, because Piki was an excellent journalist, but he sacrificed everything for the kid. He went on early retirement to be next to Sophia,” confesses the Municipality of Verikios for his wife and daughter. Referring to his place of origin, Elefsina and speaking of his childhood, the Municipality of Veriki stood also at the grocery store that his mother had and the contact she had with the Russians who had begun to arrive refugees in the area. “There in the neighborhood ours came sometime in the early 70s over Junta, a caravan of russians and settled outside the airport, from the 112 Battle Wing. My family was the one who cared for them. We gave them a berechet, they bought everything… Gas, oil, pasta, whatever they wanted…,” the well-known journalist said. Moving is the moment when the Municipality of Verukius describes from the day his father’s funeral was to take place: “In 2011 my father dies. And I go to church early to wait. And what do I see? An armada of first, second and third generation Russians to have gathered to pay tribute to him.”
Municipality of Veriki: Money in banks I don’t have, what can I do with boats and yachts?
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