On 23 February, the Primorsky Court of Odesa ruled to imprison Serhiy Sternenko, a civic activist from the south-Ukrainian city and one of the greatest enemies of the local authorities, for 7 years and three months and to seize half of his...
On 11 June, the Security Service of Ukraine served Odesa corruption fighter Serhiy Sternenko with a notice of suspicion, incriminating him with premeditated murder for an episode where he defended himself from attackers in 2018. Dozens of...
Ukraine’s ethnic-Bulgarian minority is concentrated in the southwestern part of Ukraine’s Odesa province, an area often if somewhat inaccurately referenced as “Bessarabia.” It forms a triangle between the Dnister/Nistru River, the...
The parliament of Bulgaria has adopted a declaration criticizing Ukraine’s policy toward the Bulgarian minority in Odesa province (see EDM, May 26). This move might seem to indicate that Bulgaria is about to emulate Hungary or Romania,...
Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has accepted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s offer to chair the Executive Committee of Ukraine’s National Council for Reforms (Ukrinform, May 7). Taking up the new challenge,...
One of the first to join was psychotherapist Anna Tarova, who posted a whole series of famous works of art. The Absinthe Drinker by Pablo Picasso, 1901. Twin Peaks, morning of February 23, 1989 – the legendary image from the iconic...
When the emails of Vladimir Putin’s top advisor Vladislav Surkov were leaked on the internet in 2016, some journalists supposed this was a CIA retaliation for the hack of the Democratic Party servers, so big was the scope of the...
Euromaidan Press talked to Odesa activist Vitaliy Ustymenko to ascertain how the situation in the city currently looks. Ustymenko, head of Odesa Automaidan, an organization born during the Euromaidan Revolution which after it focused on...
Ukraine also has the potential for becoming an airline transit hub. After the slump of 2014-2015, the sector is quickly making up for lost ground: total growth in the first half of 2017 was 28 percent for domestic and 23 percent for...
What were the main mistakes of the privatisation process in Ukraine? There are a lot of things that are wrong with the privatisation process as it is in Ukraine. It is actually designed not to privatise anything. It is a classic case of a...
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Van Voren: Of course, you have a number of Lithuanians who managed quite cleverly to gather wealth and become the upper layer in society. But the extremes you see in Ukraine or Russia is something that didn’t...
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