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Here you can go through a thoroughly selected digest of publications about all aspects of Odessa life.
By Simon Hooper
CNN, July 20, 2010
Growing numbers of vulnerable children across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are at risk of dying from AIDS, with widespread drug use and the sex trade contributing to an "underground HIV epidemic," UNICEF warned on Monday. äàëåå...
By Annie Brown
www.dailyrecord.co.uk, July 10, 2010
Stunning work by Scots photographer David Gillanders reveals the children a country swept under its floorboards. äàëåå...
By Jon Cohen
Science, July 9, 2010
Studies have discovered shockingly high HIV prevalence rates in kids who live on the streets of Russia and Ukraine; nongovernmental organizations are trying to give them new leases on life. äàëåå...
By Jerome Reilly
Sunday Independent, July 4, 2010
Art thieves even fooled police -- but they had merely stolen a copy of our Renaissance masterpiece. äàëåå...
By Harold Dondis and Patrick Wolff
The Boston Globe, June 19, 2010
Sergey Karjakin was the winner of the ACP World Rapid Cup held in Odessa, the Ukraine, in late May. Here is a game that he won in the 16-player tourney, against Alexei Shirov — who has returned from Spain to his native Latvia. äàëåå...
By Vadim Rizov
www.ifc.com, June 14, 2010
Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film "The Battleship Potemkin" boasts the double-edged distinction of containing a sequence so famous -- the "Odessa Steps," part of the very ABCs of film history -- that people who've never seen the movie are intimately familiar with it, the same way everyone's seen a rocket launch into the moon's eye-socket even if they don't know it's a Méliès short. äàëåå...
By Andrey Volkov
The Epoch Times, June 12, 2010
Shen Yun Performing Arts, the world’s premier Chinese classical dance and music company, has been cancelled in Odessa, Ukraine, as a direct result of pressure by Chinese diplomats on local authorities. äàëåå...
By Vladimir Socor
Georgian Daily, May 17, 2010
Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, has dismissed reports about the possible basing of Russian naval units in Mykolayiv, Odessa, and the Danube estuary, as “fantasies” (Interfax-Ukraine, www.news.ru, May 13). äàëåå...
University of Tennessee
www.govolsxtra.com, May 4, 2010
After helping lead the United States open men’s basketball team to the gold medal last summer at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel, Tennessee forward Steven Pearl is continuing his association with Maccabi USA next month. äàëåå...
By Richard Duckett
Telegram.com, March 9, 2010
Hobart Earle had just got back to his apartment after conducting the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra in its final concert in the Ukraine government-owned Philharmonic Hall before departing for a March tour of the United States. äàëåå...
Press Release
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 24, 2010
Orchestra Was Formed in ’37 But Couldn't Perform Outside Country During Soviet Era äàëåå...
By Joanne Starkey
The New York Times, February 17, 2010
The Buccaneer Crab House sailed into Freeport late last summer, landing not on the Nautical Mile with most of the other seafood restaurants but in the center of downtown on Merrick Road... äàëåå...
NY Arts Magazine, February 2010
The project group Reinigungsgesellschaft (RG) organized in collaboration with Bayerisches Haus Odessa (BHO) an exhibition and conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art Odessa, Ukraine. With the aim of a holistic view of cultural and social phenomena and with the objective to establish a dialogue on critical art practice, RG proposes an exhibition combined with talks and roundtable discussions... äàëåå...
Reuters, February 2, 2010
Viktor Yanukovych, the front-runner in Ukraine’s runoff vote for president on Feb. 7, declined on Monday to take part in a television debate with his rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, calling her election pledges “dirt and evil.” äàëåå...
By Sabina Zawadzki
Reuters, January 31, 2010
PM visits rival stronghold in presidential campaign äàëåå...
By Michele De Meglio
www.yournabe.com, January 19, 2010
Sometimes it pays to have a little attitude. So says Brooklyn resident Mila Bernadkin, who penned the award-winning book, “The Attitude Girl.” “‘The Attitude Girl’ is an inspirational novel for young adults and their parents. It’s jam-packed with drama, emotional conflict, growing pains, trials and tribulations, romance and humor,” said Bernadkin, who lives near Kings Highway and Ocean Avenue. äàëåå...
Trevor Sharpe
BBC News, December 21, 2009
A paedophile from Hampshire has been given an indeterminate jail term after admitting travelling to Eastern Europe to sexually abuse young children. äàëåå...
Famous Ukrainian restaurateur and Odessa citizen Savva Libkin is leading an effort to help the storied city on the Black Sea find the perfect logo. Libkin is concerned the proposed logo doesn’t reflect Odessa’s cultural grandeur, so he’s turning to the wisdom of crowds for help. äàëåå...
Tim Smith
The Baltimor Sun, November 28, 2009
For this week's blast from the musical past, I thought of Odessa-born pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch (1890-1963). You don't hear his name too much nowadays, outside of the most ardent piano buffs, yet he was undeniably one of the true greats. äàëåå...
Jay Kirschenmann
The life of a professional ballerina is a grueling series of performances and practice sessions.
For Anna Tyutyunnyk of Odessa, Ukraine, the normal practices schedule is six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. äàëåå...
nymag.com/daily/entertainment, October 20, 2009
This week, the sloppy detective sets up shop in Fort Greene Park, where he meets client No. 4: a smarmy Russian named Dimitri who is seeking his cabaret-singer lover in Little Odessa (a.k.a Brighton Beach). äàëåå...
Jon Enoch
The Times, October 13, 2009
I read an article about a woman in Ukraine who’d kidnapped street children and drank their blood. What caught my eye was the number of street children there — hundreds of thousands. I’d never realised the scale of the problem and I decided to go to Odessa and and spend ten days there. äàëåå...
Business New Europe, http://businessneweurope.eu, September 18, 2009
Yet another dingdong has broken out between Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. This time the president is trying to suspend the sell-off of the country's key petrochemical plant, Odessa Portside Plant, a privatisation that has already failed several times due to disputes between the government and the president. äàëåå...
By Richard Green
Tim Cairns and his wife want to know if there's much to see in the Ukranian city
The Times, June 11, 2009 äàëåå...
By Maud Swinnen
European Jewish Press, July 10, 2009
Launched ten years ago by the local Jewish community, an orphanage in Odessa, Ukraine, has experienced growth and success in recent months thanks to donations by Israeli-born US entrepreneur and philanthropist Mouli Cohen. äàëåå...
By Ruth R. Wisse
The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2009
"Now let's talk about something more cheerful. What's up with the cholera epidemic in Odessa?"
This season marks 150 years since the birth of Sholem Aleichem, whose appeal to "something more cheerful" made him the most popular Yiddish writer at a time when more Jews spoke Yiddish than any other language. äàëåå...
By Paul Bracchi and Helen Croydon
How thousands of lonely British men are being ruthlessly fleeced by a Russian 'e-mail brides' racket
Daily Mail, June 12, 2009
Some wear hotpants. Others the tiniest of mini-dresses. With names like Elanor, Olexandra, and Katerin, all are in full warpaint, teetering on vertigo-inducing heels. äàëåå...
By Pavel Korduban
Eurasia Daily Monitor, Volume 6, Issue 84, 2009
On April 17 in Odessa a youth from a radical leftist group calling themselves Antifa (from anti-fascists) stabbed to death Maksym Chayka, a 20-year-old Ukrainian nationalist. While the incident is now the subject of a police investigation, Antifa claims this was done in self-defense. But nationalists and their opponents have already delivered their own verdicts, judging by the far from neutral newspaper headlines reporting on "a patriot stabbed" or "a neo-Nazi stabbed" depending on the ideological sympathies of individual journalists. äàëåå...
By Shawn Merrithew
Bugle-Observer, Canada, May 5, 2009
Mission to build upon a group home for troubled teens served to build emotional and spiritual bonds between local six local residents and nine Ukraine teenage girls äàëåå...
By Michele Chabin
Raya is expecting a visitor and has dressed up for the occasion. A hat covers her hair, and her skirt is clean.
“Come inside,” she says cordially, entering a stone courtyard in downtown Odessa and taking a sharp right turn, where she pulls aside a sheet draped at the doorway and descends a few rickety wooden stairs. She emerges into the cave-like room that serves as her home. äàëåå...
By Jeff Pearlman
Dmitriy Salita, an Orthodox Jew born in Odessa, is the No. 1 junior welterweight contender. But, despite his 27-0 record, he's never been granted a shot at the title. As MMA steals its thunder, boxing has nothing to lose in giving Salita a shot. äàëåå...
By Ron Wilkinson
Possibly James Gray’s best film yet and one of Joaquin Phoenix’ best performances. Heartbreak and renewal set against the wrought iron, cold asphalt and restless sea of forgotten Brighton Beach. äàëåå...
By Sabina Zawadzki
Reuters, January 15, 2009
Ukraine's economy slowed abruptly last year, data showed on Thursday, and analysts say it could shrink as much as 6 percent in 2009, battered by political chaos at home and a collapse in world demand for steel. äàëåå...
By Mark Mackinnon
The Globe and Mail, January 2, 2009
This is the story of Odessa the cat and her terrifying and marvellous around-the-world journey, one that has taken our Crimean kitten from Ukraine to Russia to the Middle East before landing her this month in the fast-changing capital of the world's most populous country. äàëåå...
By Ken Johnson
The New York Times, December 25, 2008
David Burliuk, the subject of a curiously eclectic career survey at the Ukrainian Museum, was not a great painter, but he had an extraordinarily interesting life. äàëåå...
Quest Magazine Bulgaria
Odessa, the third largest city of Ukraine does not lie directly on the border with Bulgaria; however it is easily accessible and offers much to delight the culture hungry tourist. It is a city steeped in history and one that you can wander around endlessly discovering interesting sites or just gaze at the old 19th century limestone houses. äàëåå...
Alex Yurchenko
Historian Fukidid and politician Demosphenos, tsars Philip II and Alexander of Macedon, philosopher Zoilus and St. Apostole Paul – all these names are connected with Amfipolis. äàëåå...
By Josh Kovner
Hartford Courant, December 12, 2008
From the "Little Odessa" neighborhood of Russian immigrants on Farmington Avenue to the middle class neighborhoods of suburban Hartford, the recession has hit the area's Jewish community hard. äàëåå...
Alex Yurchenko
Several weeks ago I found in the internet a report titled “How to reach Ukraine (Russia) by sea”. äàëåå...
Alex Yurchenko
On the 27th of November in the restaurant PAPA KOSTA in Grecheskaya St there was a lot of fizz and liveliness. äàëåå...
By Karen Ryan
The Tiraspol Times, April 14, 2008
Delegations from Moldova and Transdniestria are having new talks in Odessa this Monday. The meeting is the second in less than a week, and follows more than two years of stalled negotiations. Transdniestria hopes that Moldova will sign a friendship and co-operation treaty. äàëåå...
Gulf Times - Doha (Qatar), April 15, 2008
Poland and Ukraine yesterday stepped up plans to extend an oil pipeline that bypasses Russia, a duct that could help diversify supplies and reduce Moscow’s energy clout in the region. äàëåå...
Evening Standard, April 11, 2008
Britain's a cultural backwater with poor health care and high crime, says Liverpool star Andrei Voronin, who's married to the worst-dressed WAG. äàëåå...
By Kostis Geropoulos
New Europe, April 7, 2008
Remember Odessa-Brody? Not many people do! The hapless pipeline built in 2001 without having firm commitments from anyone for exports sat idle for many years until the Ukrainian government reluctantly agreed in 2004 to transport Russian oil in the opposite direction, for export from Odessa rather than westward to Central European markets as originally planned. äàëåå...
By Pavel Polityuk
The Guardian, March 25, 2008
Grain traders in Ukraine are investing heavily in the country's Black Sea ports, betting that a sharp increase in harvests will allow the removal of export curbs that has left over half its terminals empty. äàëåå...
By Alexander Usoltsev
Moscow News, ¹10 2008, March 13, 2008
Odessa is a beautiful city on the Black Sea, and the chances are good that you have never been here. But beware: the residents of Odessa will not understand it if you've never been here. äàëåå...
By Tamar Runyan
chabad.org, March 13, 2008
In the thriving Jewish community of Odessa, Ukraine, ritual circumcisions happen about one a week; weddings occur one a month. But the bris of young Alexander Gurvitz two weeks ago nevertheless made history. äàëåå...
By Lew Baxter
Liverpool Daily Post, February 18, 2008
This is one of Puccini’s fabulous tearjerkers, and impresario Ellen Kent has a fair reputation to maintain with this taxing piece, as the female soprano has to take centre stage for most of the action. äàëåå...
By Lorelei Reddin
www.thisishampshire.net, February 16, 2008
The Ukrainian National Opera of Odessa, on its 120th anniversary tour, is presenting Madama Butterfly at The Anvil, Basingstoke, on February 24, with international Korean and Japanese sopranos. äàëåå...
By Val Vinokur
www.zeek.net, February 8, 2008
A half century before lamenting in Exit Ghost the man he once was and no longer is, Philip Roth’s protagonist and alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman – in a classic example of oedipal one-upmanship -- revises Isaac Babel’s words. Recalling Babel’s description of “the Jewish writer” in “How It Was Done in Odessa” as “a man with autumn in his heart and spectacles on his nose,” the virile Zuckerman of Roth’s Ghost Writer adds, “and blood in his penis.” äàëåå...
By David Thomson
The Guardian, February 1, 2008
Battleship Potemkin is nothing less than history - political and cinematic - in thrilling motion, says David Thomson. äàëåå...
By A. Angelo d'Silva
Nepali Times, Issue 384, January 25-31, 2008
Michale Boganim’s Odessa…Odessa! is a documentary of transnational identity told in three chapters, elegiacally depicting the lives of Ukrainian Jews first in the Post-Soviet Ukrainian city of Odessa, then in New York City’s Brighton Beach and finally in Israel’s Ashdod. äàëåå...
By Daniella Peled
The Jewish Chronicle, January 18, 2008
When Aron was 11, his mother Raisa, a prostitute, would send him down to the docks of Odessa to find clients for her. For each sailor the boy brought back, he got one Ukrainian hryvnia — a tenth of a penny. That was 10 years ago. äàëåå...
By Misha Savinov
http://www.chessbase.com, January 6, 2008
Sixteen players are gathered for this knockout event, which carries a US $136,000 prize fund. Not enough to attract Anand or Kramnik. But Ivanchuk, Shirov, Svidler, Gelfand, Radjabov, Karjakin, Karpov and Polgar make the show very worth- while. Generally the favourites went through in the first stage, except Alexei Shirov, who faltered against Inarkiev. äàëåå...
By Veronika Belenkaya
NY Daily News, December 4, 2007
If my memories of my motherland had a smell, they'd tickle the nose with the scent of freshly baked, doughy meat pies. äàëåå...
Variety, November 27, 2007
Odessa-born Emmy-winning TV writer Mel Tolkin died of natural causes Nov. 26 in Los Angeles. He was 94. äàëåå...
www.unicef.org, November 19, 2007
By Guy Degen
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified 18 years ago, on 20 November 1989. For this landmark anniversary, UNICEF has launched the ‘CRC@18’ campaign to raise awareness about child rights and the impact of the Convention. Here is one in a series of related stories. äàëåå...
The Moscow Times, November 13, 2007
By Alexei Pankin
Looking with an objective eye, it becomes clear that the ruling elite has adopted mutually exclusive points of view. But do you think Russians are the only ones to have done so? Remember when Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko voiced his opposition to the erection of a monument to the Russian tsaritsa -- Catherine the Great -- in Odessa, even though she founded Odessa on what at the time was barren land, thus giving modern Ukraine what would become one of its few world-famous cities. äàëåå...
The Shreveport Times, October 21, 2007
By Dr. Aubrey A. Lurie
The city of Odessa on the Black Sea was a major warm-water outlet for the Russian empire's exports and the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based close by in the Crimea, an autonomous republic on the Black Sea. äàëåå...
RIA Novosti, October 12, 2007
By Vladimir Saprykin
The success of the informal energy summit held by Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday will be judged later, when the agreements reached there become reality. But it was certainly an achievement, because it offered more cooperation possibilities for participants, who endorsed the extension of the Ukrainian-Polish Odessa-Brody pipeline to Poland's port Gdansk and refinery in Plock. The pipeline is designed to pump oil from the Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia. äàëåå...
jaunted.com, October 11, 2007
Brighton Beach, also known as "Little Odessa," is considered the headquarters of the Russian mafia in America--but it also has a beach to rival Coney Island's and boasts a number of excellent bakeries. äàëåå...
The political deadlock in Europe's second largest country is set to end as voters go to the polls
The Observer, September 30, 2007
By Daniel McLaughlin
The coloured flags were competing for space across the cities of Europe's second largest nation this weekend. At the famed Potemkin Steps, where the port of Odessa fans out beside the Black Sea, it was the boys in blue showing the biggest force. äàëåå...
San Diego Union Tribune, September 18, 2007
By Dean Calbreath
Odessa-born Gary Shekhter said America is still a land of opportunity. äàëåå...
Chabad-Lubavitch, Brooklyn,NY,USA, September 13, 2007
By Rebecca Rosenthal
To ensure the safety of a crowd of 2000 worshippers on Rosh Hashanah, the city of Odessa’s municipal authorities plan to close the streets surrounding the Chabad center. äàëåå...
Chessbase News, September 6, 2007
By GM Mikhail Golubev äàëåå...
Ukrayinska Pravda, August 28, 2007
The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc leader claims that she won more supporters in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
She stated this at a press conference in Mykolaiv when analyzing her election tour through those regions. “A significant event happened in Odessa region. Practically all citizens of Izmail city came to the meeting. I have not seen such respect in 2002 nor 2004.” äàëåå...
www.kiwicollection.com, August 9, 2007
By Mary Gostelow
First after we entered the western part of the Black Sea was the attractive port city of Odessa. We moored by the famous steps (photo), as shown in the 1925 movie Battleship Potemkin (and, by the way, there are 157 steps, not the 193 that seem to be mortalised, erroneously, for evermore). äàëåå...
Alexander Pozin's actions earned him 18 medals for bravery
St Augustine Record, Monday, April 30, 2007
By Peter Guinta
Alexander M. Pozin, a former fighter and bomber pilot for the 210th Division of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, easily recalls vicious dogfights against German warplanes over western Russia and then more fierce battles against the Japanese in Manchuria. äàëåå...
www.amny.com, April 19, 2007
By Miranda Siegel
It's not uncommon to approach a shop clerk in Brighton Beach and be greeted, before anything else, in Russian. äàëåå...
NZZ Online, April 18, 2007
By Erik Albrecht
Ukraine has experienced strong economic growth since independence in 1991, but still faces a mountain of social problems inherited from the Soviet era. Ukraine's best side is reflected in the magnificent 19th century buildings lining the Primorsky Boulevard in Odessa, proudly overlooking the Black Sea. äàëåå...
The Times, April 12, 2007
By Anatole Kaletsky
Never in human history has life been more predictable, safe and stable — at least for that large minority of the human race who live in the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe, North America and East Asia. This thought overwhelmed me last week as I prepared a tribute for my mother, who was born in Odessa in 1916 just before the Russian Revolution, and died peacefully in London on March 31. äàëåå...
Payvand News, April 4, 2007
By Saeid Najar Nobari
Demands by Kazakhstan to include Russia in the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk pipeline project could overshadow next month's Caspian sea energy summit in the Polish capital Warsaw. äàëåå...
The Jewish Week, February 15, 2007
by Rebecca Faye Rosenberg
Gold medal figure skater from Odessa now embracing her recently discovered Jewish roots, with the help of an ex-chasidic fashion designer. äàëåå...
February 2, 2007
By Fred Kirshnit
Hearing the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on Tuesday evening at the Isaac Stern Auditorium reminded me of a story. äàëåå...
April 2006
By Irena Sandul, Special to the Post
http://www.kpnews.com/main/9954/
Odessa is not all burning sun, sand in the shoes and the smell of the sea on the skin. This lively city on the Black Sea has a lot more to offer - all year round. äàëåå...
March 30, 2006
By Beverly Nwanna
The artist is a figure more often associated with starvation than conventional education. Princeton alumni, however, have never found scholarship incompatible with the creative arts. äàëåå...
November 30, 2005
By Dmitry Chubashenko
ODESSA, Ukraine – The European Union on Wednesday launched border patrols aimed at stopping smuggling from Moldova's separatist Dnestr region and said the move could help solve the ex-Soviet state's 15-year-old conflict. äàëåå...
November 2001
by Bob Leuci
Format: Paperback, 288pp. ISBN: 155921242X. Publisher: Moyer Bell. Pub. Date: October 2001. äàëåå...
November 3, 2000
By Fine Art Liaisons
For the first time showing at a gallery in the Philadelphia area, artist Yuri Gorbachev, best known in the US for his brightly colored paintings used in Stolichnaya Vodka's annual holiday campaign, hosts a major solo exhibit, Russia and Southeast Asia, in Valley Forge. äàëåå...
September 10, 2000
It isn't so much a port as a chic, unique, cosmopolitan mix of beauties and beasts
By Simon Sebag-Montefiore
Prince Potemkin, Catherine the Great's brilliant, exuberant and outrageous lover, secret husband and co-ruler, has a way of entering one's consciousness in Odessa in the most surprising ways. äàëåå...
August 2, 2000
By Allison Linn
Yuri Lemeshev is hamming it up. The Odessa, Ukraine, native has abandoned the traditional klezmer music that his band is famous for, and is now playing the James Bond theme on his accordion. A wide smile on his face, Lemeshev ends the little ditty with a play on the movie "From Russia With Love." "From Brooklyn with love," he sings, referring to his adopted hometown of Brooklyn, New York. äàëåå...
April 19, 2000
A Norwegian ship was damaged and spilled fuel oil in a Black Sea lagoon near Ukraine's Odessa region, emergency officials said Wednesday. äàëåå...
March 14, 2000
CHICAGO (BUSINESS WIRE) Freedom Farm International Inc. (http://www.farmukraine.com), a successful US agricultural production and processing company operating in Ukraine, today announced that the time is perfect for U.S. entrepreneurs to invest and farm in Ukraine. äàëåå...
February 24, 2000
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukrainian authorities declared water from the Danube River fit for municipal water supplies in a southern town Wednesday, three weeks after a major cyanide spill contaminated the river, the news agency Interfax reported. äàëåå...
February 5, 2000
By Tony Kelly
Brighton Beach, once a fashionable summer resort, is known these days as "Little Odessa", a refuge for more than 30,000 Russians and Ukrainians who have arrived in New York over the past 30 years. äàëåå...
March 1999
By Anatoly Kontush
"Despite Stalin, Odessa somehow retained its charm. And its people never lost their sense of humor", wrote Jeremy Atiyah in Independent on Sunday on April 26, 1998. A century ago, Odessa was the third city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg, in respect of population, finance or economics. äàëåå...
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