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An American Innocent Abroad Meets A New York Dandy In Odessa
Along with its hard-nosed skepticism, Odessa is renowned for an acerbic sense of humor, expressed most characteristically in iconic set-piece anecdotes. While most of...
Jamala: The Voice Of Ukraine
Raised on jazz, soul and the traditional songs of her Crimean Tatar people. She experienced the temptations of easy fame and betrayal. She lost...
Conclusions From DocuDays 2017: Artifacts Of The Post-Apocalypse
The 14th annual DocuDays human rights documentary film festival was held during the last week of March in Kyiv, presenting four competitive and four...
The Decommunizing Of Taras Shevchenko
The remarkable poet and artist who is considered to be the father of the modern Ukrainian nation means different things to different people. It...
The First Annual Golden Dziga
This year saw the foundation of two new film institutions in Ukraine. The National Film Academy and the Golden Dziga Award (which has positioned...
Odessa Tales By Boris Khersonsky
Eleven years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Odessa Intelligentsia joined the ranks of the “I think and speak in Russian” club....
Odessa Photographer In Focus: Vera Mantyuk
Vera Mantyuk is 35 years old; she was born and lives in Odessa. Interested in photography for a long time, she has been experimenting...
A Conversation With Artist Alexander Florensky: Creator Of The “Odessa Alphabet”
At the end of 2016, there were multiple mentions in the Ukrainian media that an artist originally from St. Petersburg and living in Georgia,...
Legendary New York Jazz Clarinetist David Krakauer Comes To Odessa
David Krakauer is one of those musicians whom you can't imagine ever meeting. An American clarinetist who lives in New York, he has performed...
An Excerpt From Sergei Loiko’s ‘Airport’
Translated from the Russian by Alexander Cigale
The battle for Donetsk Airport was one of the bloodiest and hardest fought in the now three-year conflict...
