What European Solidarity bet on in Odesa and why it worked

While Odesa’s City Council gets to work, the Odesa Oblast Rada is drowning in scandals and remote counties live their own political life

Odesa in the life of Yuriy Yanovskiy

The prosecutors are preparing to press charges of non-compliance with safety regulations

The Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU, on June 25 announced it had detained Araik Amirkhanyan, a businessman from Odesa.

A French navy warship has been docked in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa since March 23, making it the second NATO ship to visit Ukraine since the beginning of this year

There was an unsuccessful attempt to start a fight, but police prevented the conflict

Why a big part of the Roma community is so poorly integrated all across Europe

On February 26, the main conference to plan Ukraine-U.S. Sea Breeze 2018 drills kicked off in Odesa. The goal is to finalize the plan, agree on the scenario and exercise issues, define the forces, tools and format of the drills, do reconnaissance of the areas where the drills will take place. Participants include the navies of Ukraine and the U.S., as well as Bulgaria, UK, Greece, Georgia, Denmark, Estonia, Canada, Lithuania, Moldova, Norway, Turkey and Sweden. The drills will involve representatives of other units from Ukraine's Armed Forces and law enforcement entities.

Decentralisation started in Odesa Oblast almost eighteen months ago. The initiative was sometimes successful in the north, while the south has seen a fundamentally different process

Three years after the May 2 fire at the Trade Unions’ Building in Odesa, virtually all those involved have fled Ukraine. The remaining suspects have been under trial for more than two years now

How are Ukraine’s ports changing the way they operate and what are their future prospects?

Why the auction to sell OPP failed

Head of the Ukrainian State Property Fund on the estimated value of state assets in Ukraine, performance of the privatisation plan, bidders for the Odesa Port Plant and Russian management of Ukrainian regional power companies

Expectation of confrontations on May 2, the anniversary of the Trade Unions Building tragedy when 48 people died in a fire in Odesa, has already become a tradition. However, for the second consecutive year, there have been no clashes, no civil unrest, and no mass disorders

The government plans to reform the system of public property management and launch a wide scale sell-off. Are Ukraine’s economy and society ready?

Proposed decentralization raises concern over the quality of human resources available to run the regions

The image of today’s Odesa is a product of the variety of ethnic, social and professional groups you wouldn’t have seen often elsewhere in Ukraine: Ukrainian writers and Italian architects, Ukrainian chumaks, the old-time salt traders, and Jewish merchants, Ukrainian sailors and French designers, Ukrainian Cossacks and Russian officials, Ukrainian scholars and Polish revolutionaries, Ukrainian students and Greek entrepreneurs, as well as profiteers, port coachmen and policemen with no distinct ethnic origin. One thing they all had in common was freedom of spirit, ideas and actions.

Chloroform was found at the Labour Unions Building in Odesa where over 40 people died on May 2, Vitaliy Sakal, Head of the Interior Ministry’s Investigation Headquarters said today

While new authorities are set to play by the old rules, the country is veering further out of control. All hopes are on the army

The police were de facto involved in the crimes committed by separatists in Odesa, Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky says in an interview for Channel 5

Contemporary art from young Ukrainians and a history of escape from the 20th-century avant-garde Odesa-based painters