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Bessarabian

Taste of Bessarabia

The Bessarabia region is home to various different kinds of local cuisine created at the intersection of various different cultures in this region that...

The History of Plăcintă From Ancient Rome To Modern Odessa

The Plăcintă is Bessarabia’s traditional pastry. It resembles a thin, small round or square-shaped cake and is usually filled with a variety of soft...

The Awesome Ukraine Book Series

One does not have to live in Ukraine for many years to gain a sufficient understanding specific things that make up the nation’s unique...

Theater On Podil: A Controversial Facet Of The Ukrainian Architectural Revival

The newly built Podil Theater building has proven to be quite controversial with it’s modernist exterior making many observers quite unhappy. If nothing else,...

A Green Theater For The 21st Century

Shevchenko Park’s Green Theater is the first and only open-air amphitheater in Odessa. Since the 1930s, it has been setting new standards for the...

The Evolutionary History of the Barbara Bui Design House

The Barbara Bui boutique on Ekaterininska street in Odessa has been a staple of the city’s fashion scene for years. The French designer’s raw...

Beautiful Pivdenny Bug: Eco-tourism, Rafting, and Fishing

Are you a fan of tourism, fishing and rafting? Are you interested in history, biology and geology? If so, then you should definitely consider...

Ukrainian Fashion Bonanza Dispatch #5: Glitter, Glow, and Post Offices

This is the fifth in a series of fashion show dispatches by Maria Romanenko and the third from Ukrainian Fashion Week, which began on...

The Privoz: King Of The Markets

The legendary Odessa market attracts thousands of tourists from all over the world every year. Poets, historians and criminals have roamed it’s fabled premises....