Mykhailo Aksaniuk

Mayor of Odesa Oleksii Kostusiev responded with outrage on April 16 to the environmental prosecutor’s office’s institution of two criminal cases concerning large-scale pollution of the Black Sea with fecal sewage after 21,000 tons of untreated sewage had been dumped near famous Arkadia...

Foreign owners of city of Odesa municipal bonds have stopped preparing their lawsuit against the mayoralty and have begun negotiating bond redemption, reported Ukrainski novyny several days ago. This involves representatives of the largest investors like Global Fund Management (Moscow) and Parex (...

Oil was among the key subjects at the recent sitting of the Ukrainian-Polish Presidential Consulting Committee in Lviv and during the talks with Polish Speaker Macej Plazynski that began on July 2. And it was not so much oil as it was oil transit. The topic seems to be in the limelight for the...

OSCE High Commissioner for Ethnic Minorities Max van der Stuhl, visiting Ukraine on the Russian government’s request to find out about the human rights of the Russian ethnic community, had a number of meetings with central functionaries and leaders of the Rus’ Society regional branches in Lviv,...

Summing up the fifth session of the intergovernmental Ukrainian- German commission dealing with settlers of German origin held in Odesa on May 22-23, Vice Premier of Ukraine Mykola Zhulynsky and special representative of the German federal government Johann Wehlt, signed a joint communiqu О...

Residents in the Rozdilniansky electoral district No. 143, and, in particular, the staff of School No. 2 in Liubashivka sent a letter to the former head of Naftohaz Ukrayiny National Company, Ihor Bakai, asking him to run for Parliament in the by-election due to be held in their district soon. The...

The mercenary’s trade is something completely unaccustomed that has come about in Ukraine following perpetually rising unemployment and our unstable economic situation. Young people who have found no application for their skills under current conditions begin to trade with the only thing they have...

Odesa’s authorities have demonstrated their traditional diligence in complying with Moscow’s “insistent request” that an end be put to the activity of the Chechnya Information Bureau functioning under the auspices of the local Rukh office. Volodymyr Karliuk, chairman of the information committee of...

The fifth Ukrainian Polar Expedition will arrive in Antarctica only at the beginning of the cold Antarctic fall when most foreign researchers of the icy continent will be completing their programs to study the marine floral and fauna. “The Horyzont (Horizon) research ship is scheduled to leave...

65 years perhaps might represent the distance between two great events in world science In 1936, Ukraine’s and the then USSR’s first experimental research Institute of Ophthalmology was founded on the basis of the Odesa Medical College. Later on, thanks to the genius of surgeon Volodymyr...