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“FreierFest” As A Contemporary Art Festival

The “FreierFest” festival was just that — a true festival consisting of six exhibitions, multiple lectures (mostly by Kyiv representatives, but also notable foreign...

On The Languages Of Ukrainian Poetry

The events of the past two years have divided Ukrainian poets no less than they have divided other sectors of society. The Russian-language publishing...

“Euromaidan. Rough Cut” Documentary Online Premiere

The international festival of documentary film about human rights Docudays UA begins the new season of online premieres at DOCU/PROSTIR (docuspace.org). For the anniversary...

Oleg Kulik In Odessa

The notorious Moscow performance artist turned Buddhist returned to Odessa for a provocative and charming talk. Oleg Kulik is a citizen of the Russian Federation...

The Erised: From Ukraine With Love

The Erised, a band originally from Kharkiv, are fresh blood in Ukrainian music and something absolutely new for the world music industry. Young and...

Odessa Tales By Boris Khersonsky

When the Odessa Intelligentsia was a little girl, the favorites among all of her toys were her dolls. In her expansive collection she had not...

Korney Chukovsky: Odessa’s Famous And Also Unknown Writer

He was Vladimir Zhabotinsky’s childhood friend; a defender of Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova; translator of Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling; chronicler...

The New British Film Festival Comes To Odessa November 24th

The New British Film Festival, with the participation of British Council Ukraine, begins in Odessa on November 24th at the festival center "Rodina" and continues through...

A Conversation With Lithuanian Film Maker Mantas Kvedaravicius

The Odessa Review spoke with the Lithuanian director who represented Ukraine at the world-renowned Berlinale film festival this year. The Odessa Review’s Ute Kilter...

A Conversation About Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry With Ukraine’s Renowned Poet Serhiy Zhadan

Serhiy Zhadan’s youthful looks in his early 40’s are symbolic of this cult status among Ukraine’s younger generation. The events of the Maidan have...