Nicholas Niarchos[/B] could have spent his life in opulence. He would rather do what he loves most of all, even if he is forced - for professional reasons - to be on the front line of the war: journalism, which - without exaggeration - he practices in the most militant way.
He prefers to do what he loves most of all, even if he is forced - for professional reasons - to be on the front line of the war: journalism, which - without exaggeration - he practices in the most militant way.
When the managers of the radio station Kraina FM met with him in the previous months "in the chaos of war", as reported by the foreign press, in their makeshift studio; hidden in a remote village, in a closed ski resort somewhere in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains, trying to broadcast their program over the Internet; they probably had a hard time believing, or not realizing, that the reporter they were talking to was the scion of a Greek family of croissants: the Niarchs!
Kraina FM was broadcasting from Kiev[/B] and more than twenty other cities, playing rock and pop music in the Ukrainian language. After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it changed its profile and became a "national resistance station", broadcasting news bulletins and other information, such as requests for supplies. For security reasons, he was asked not to reveal the location and he complied...
It was not the first time 33-year-old Nicholas Stavros Niarchos had ventured into the "fire". With the intention of securing primary and valid information for his reports, he did not hesitate to make other trips, such as the one to Lviv, often referred to as the cultural capital of Ukraine, in an attempt to capture the effects of the war on art and culture.
There, he saw statues wrapped in plastic covers and locals struggling in every way possible to protect the windows and facades of their neoclassical city buildings, even though they knew that a direct hit from a shell would be enough to bring about their destruction...
During his mission to Ukraine in March, the young journalist captured footage and conveyed in June in his writings for the American The Nation the images of the horrors of war, and before he started had published a warning from a general, the country's Chief of Defence Intelligence, of an imminent - at the time - Russian invasion.
The general culture of Nicholas Niarchos does not, perhaps, point to a billionaire. The name of his ancestors, however, confirms without doubt the origin and identity of the eldest son of two very rich people, Spyros Niarchos and Daphne Guinness, grandson of the legendary shipowner Stavros Niarchos and nephew of the billionaire Philip Niarchos.
Trump, Mount Athos, Samos
Enigmatic, witty, creative, always anxious, he has touched with his caustic pen more than once on the "bad things" that he sees.
In one of his slightly earlier articles in the renowned "The New Yorker" entitled "How Biden can soothe the tensions caused by Trump in Western Sahara", Nicholas Niarchos described statements by the former US president as a "mixture" of opportunism, cynicism and ignorance.
In fact, describing his personal experience of travelling to part of the disputed area, he revealed that he was temporarily detained and allowed to disembark from the plane to be deported!
In the past, he came to Greece to do travelogue-photojournalism on Mount Athos, as well as the issue of hot spots with fieldwork in Samos, writing a report entitled "On a Greek island that welcomed migrants, residents and refugees feel abandoned".
His articles and reports have been published in some of the major media in Britain and the US (Guardian, Independent, Observer, New York Times, Huffington Post), although he has maintained a permanent partnership with The New Yorker since 2014, following his early days at the Yale Daily News and his first broadcasts on the university's radio station.
He has traveled from Monte Carlo and Japan to Congo, Yemen, Burkina Faso and more for research and fact-finding. and recently he was interested in writing a book about the global cobalt industry...
He studied literature and politics at Yale University and then received a master's degree, specializing in journalism, at Columbia University, speaks five languages and is considered a... polymath, since his long reports are up to several thousand words long.
He loves Greece and his social media accounts show that he has visited islands and places like Skopelos, Spetses, Serifos, Laconia, etc.
Rumors, however, want him to appear occasionally at the luxurious hotel of the Niarchos family in St. Moritz...
The collaboration with Sarkozy
The family business of the billions and shipping has so far not seemed to move the New Yorker Nicolas Niarchos, even though his mother, Daphne, is the "golden" heiress of the famous Irish Guinness brewery.
His only known business initiative was his collaboration with his friend Louis Sarkozy, one of the sons of the former French president, when 3-4 years ago they decided to jointly launch and promote a new, global brand of men's signature footwear: "The Enigma Collection by Louis Sarkozy- Captured by Nicolas Niarchos."
The moccasins of the Spanish Boonper collection are inspired and designed by son Sarkozy and photographed by the lens of Nicolas Niarchos.
His two younger siblings are Alexis Spyros Niarchos and Ines Sophia Niarchos. His first cousins are the children of Spyros' father's brother, Philip Niarchos, Stavros, Eugenia, Theo and Electra.
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