Inside News on Odessa and Ukraine
This new section is devoted to the world of international finance and business opportunities. Sort of a catch all to allow for variety – from the big to the small. This coincides with some of the longer term goals of OdessaTalk with respect to UkrBDG and my own participation in the development of FundingTimes.com. It’s [...]
Well somewhat surprisingly, the “united opposition” parties of Ukraine (which does not include all opposition parties in Ukraine) has launched its manifesto for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in October. I say surprisingly, as generally there is very little said by political parties in Ukraine about proposed policy as politics normally revolves around personality here. Manifesto/policy [...]
Continuing with the action in North Africa, Rommel’s Afrika Korps follows in the footsteps of history with a series of hard fought attacks to take the Port of Tobruk. Most of the English Army has retreated, but by the time all is said and done, the English will have lost four brigades defending Tobruk and [...]
Elsewhere in cyberspace a heated debate amongst the Ukrainian Expat community and some English football fans is engaged, fueled by media coverage in the UK of Ukrainian and Polish supporters football violence and racist actions and chants. Now there is no denying that there is a racist element amongst certain fans and in particular those [...]
Azerbaijan is a country that most westerners couldn’t find on a map. Those who can are likely to know it for one thing – Oil. The Capitol City of Azerbaijan is Baku – the birthplace of the modern Oil Industry. Baku was the ultimate objective of the German Army in World War II. Military historians [...]
OK, before I start many of you will be asking who or what is Oleska Himyk. Well, he was a Ukrainian engineer back in the darker days of the USSR and regularly in and out of the gulag for insisting on speaking Ukrainian much to the annoyance of the Soviet authorities, and can rightly be [...]
What happened to the clear and clean cut image of human rights I had when I was younger? Although being without the Internet for 2 days was annoying, it certainly provided some time for reading real books, made of paper, that smell like books and feel like books and provided a glorious reminder of why [...]
OK – This has nothing to do with Ukraine – yet – but legal precedents have a habit of seeping across international borders if they suit the establishment in other nations that have similar issues and can see similar solutions. For many, many months I have been following the Leveson Inquiry via the website and [...]
First, some real history… The history books almost completely gloss over German-Arab relations during World War II. It’s fitting to give some attention to Iraq’s role in World War II as it had some influence in the eventual formation of the Ba’ath Party. Without getting deep into Iraq’s history (or the affairs/aftermath of World War [...]
Apologise for not having written anything yesterday and only this brief statement today, but to plagerise Ezekiel 25:17. The path to the Internet in Ukraine is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men and poor coverage. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and [...]