Bohdan Dymovsky

ODESA — The European Union remains interested in a gas transportation consortium based on Ukraine’s gas system. EU Commissioner for Energy Gunther Oettinger has made this perfectly clear. Europe, moreover, will collaborate with Ukraine in upgrading its gas transportation system. This...

ODESA — After 70 years of oblivion, the restored Lutheran Evangelical Church of St. Paul has opened in Odesa. It is one of the city’s major historic sites and the main temple of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ukraine, which counts 35 parishes. The church was built with German settlers...

Odesa welcomed the other day Yevgeny Yasin, Russia’s ex-minister of economics in the Boris Yeltsin government. The economist arrived in his native city to establish “an intellectual environment and foci of education on the basis of the Higher School of Economics.” The academic chose Odesa to carry...

The Lutheran Evangelical Church of Saint Paul is one of the biggest historical monuments in Odesa. Local people call it simply kirkha and often add the epithet “long-suffering.” The construction of the church was financed by German immigrants in 1828. The building was designed by the architect...

Odesa – The property of the state-run Black Sea Steamship Company (BSSC) has been sequestered. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said the company’s officials are suspected of illegal alienation of over 400 million hryvnias worth of property. The preliminary investigation established that the...

Serhii Proskurnia, former director of the Odesa National Opera and Ballet Theater, has arranged for a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni for the press and engaged his new brainchild — the New Odesa Opera Theater.“It is a company with limited liability. And its entire...

Early in the morning on June 30 some members of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists publicly vandalized the statue of Lenin in downtown Kyiv. This event caused much more stir in the media than, say, similar destructions in Luhansk oblast, Sumy, and other regions of Ukraine. At the same time,...

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tackled the problems faced by peasants. She has held what she described as the “most important meeting in her life,” having gathered in Kyiv the heads of village councils to discuss socioeconomic issues they are facing. In her speech the premier voiced several...

“I often reflect on why mum is working in Spain and dad in the Czech Republic, while I am here in Ukraine with granny,” writes Olena Frankova, 11, from Khmelnytsky oblast. This is a quote from a short story that makes part of the collection “Emigrants’ Children on Themselves.” The book’s cover...

ODESA — the 36th April Fool’s contest known here as Humoryna started on Prymorsky Blvd., with a display of cartoons entitled “Friendship Starts with a Smile.” It was followed by a karaoke competition on Derybasivka St., the show “Sharing Odesa’s Smile,” a circus show, a parade of Odesa teams that...