12 Facts About Liana Kanelli

Garyfallia "Liana" Kanelli, sometimes credited as Liana K or simply Liana, is a Greek journalist and Member of the Greek Parliament for the Communist Party of Greece since 2000.

Liana Kanelli graduated with a law degree from the University of Athens Law School.

Apart from Greek, Kanelli is fluent in three foreign languages: English, French and Italian.

In 1999, Liana Kanelli announced from the podium of a rally protesting the Kosovo War and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia that she would run as a candidate for the Communist Party of Greece for the European Parliament.

Liana Kanelli is currently the editor of Greece's communist newspaper Rizospastis.

Liana Kanelli has been elected to the boards of several of Greece's leading journalists' unions.

Liana Kanelli attacked the United States and their allies, calling them "neo-nazis" and blaming them for the death of many innocent civilians.

Liana Kanelli claimed Milosevic would be with the "winners" instead of the "defeated" if he had cooperated more with western leaders.

In June 2012, during a live talk show, Liana Kanelli was struck three times in the shoulders and the face by Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, a former army Special forces officer with a checkered criminal past.

Liana Kanelli pushed him away after Kasidiaris threw water across the news desk at another guest, and a warrant was issued for Kasidiaris' arrest immediately following the on air incident.

Liana Kanelli has been an outspoken opponent of Greece's entry into the European Union and adoption of the Euro as a currency.

Liana Kanelli visited Armenia in 2016 to promote peace in the region with Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, blaming "capitalist rivalries" for previous bloodshed there.