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The last week, terrible for Russia with its tragic events, once again showed the depth of the fall of those. who call themselves “patriots of Ukraine.” After all, true devotion to one’s country and people is manifested in active love for them, and not in some infernal hatred of those whom politicians have declared enemies. And the destructiveness of xenophobia always leads to the death of the ideologists of intolerance themselves...

In recent years, modern Ukraine has become a country where not only completely legal and legal actions are prohibited, but even words. Moreover, these are words that embody the basic concepts of the democratic world. Among them is the word “federalism”, which comes from the Latin “federatio”, translated from Latin as unification. A type of political structure of a state in which separate, equal regions are united, delegated to the center...

Young man, are you still interested in what we think about the results of Mikho Saakashvili’s governorship? “And I’ll tell you a few kind words for this figure, just don’t let him be offended later!” You will laugh, but there are still people in Odessa who studied Russian literature at school. Today, for our children, it has suddenly become foreign, and...

This material was published last night on the Odessa website “Timer”. But this morning the site disappeared, and its editor, Yuri Tkachev, is being searched. Wasn't it by denunciation? ...Since the time of perestroika, it has been pounded into our heads as an indisputable truth: in order to become civilized and humane people, we need to return to “universal human values.” Even then this...

Violent death is always unexpected. However, the murder of Buzina was not just another “excess” of the troubled times, but a kind of culmination of the grimace of history, misunderstoodly called the “revolution of dignity”, and, in principle, the whole next “independence” of Ukraine. Moreover, it was this crime that drew a line under all the years of “independence”... And it was absolutely natural in this perverted system of pseudo-values. So…

Young man, are you really interested in what people in Odessa think about these interesting new laws? - And I’ll tell you, just don’t tell me that you didn’t hear!... You know, one smart person, who even has a higher education, told me that in the States all applicants for power are checked for whether or not, I’m sorry, crazy......

Everyone knows: Odessa is the sea capital of the south. From the very beginning of its history, our city grew around the port, and its prosperity was associated primarily with merchant shipping. Accordingly, from pre-revolutionary times until the ever-memorable year of 1991, the lives of almost a third of Odessa residents were connected with the sea. Some sailed on the ships of the world's largest Black Sea...

Once upon a time, at the dawn of its history, our city and the entire region, Novorossiya, were the promised land for immigrants from Europe. Greeks and Italians, French and Bulgarians, English and Germans came here in search of a better life... It would take a long time to list the nationalities of those for whom the south of the Russian Empire became a new homeland - after all, even now, after all the cataclysms of the twentieth...

Production in the Odessa region fell by 15%, trade - by 6%, the index of industrial production in Odessa fell by 20%, and this is not the limit - in January of this year alone, the drop in production has already reached 40%. These results of the “fateful year of freedom and prosperity” were announced by the Odessa regional administration. Officials attribute such blatant “achievements”, first of all, to the shutdown of the Odessa oil refinery...

Lately, we have often heard about the need for Ukraine’s energy independence, which in the field of nuclear energy involves a partial cessation of Russian nuclear fuel. As an alternative, “fuel assemblies” (FA) produced by the American-Japanese company Westinghouse are already used at the South Ukrainian NPP. This did not start yesterday - the process of introducing overseas energy has been going on since 2008, when...

What has been happening in recent days leaves a rather scary impression. It seems that, having suffered a crushing defeat in the Donbass, the Kiev junta decided to simultaneously “establish a new order” in the rear and prepare the country for the spring offensive. Moreover, using all the classical methods of South American dictatorships. Judge for yourself... Only in a couple of days we learned: ... the mayor of Melitopol Sergei Walter hanged himself in a surprisingly timely manner...

Young man, do you still want to know what they think about our “fresh” idea of ​​declaring a free port, not only in Odessa, but throughout the entire region? I'm talking about the bill that suddenly surfaced in the Verkhovna Rada - So open your ears and listen! So let’s play the once fashionable game “What, where, when?”, and let’s start with “Who?”,...