ODESSA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Odessa: the very name conjures up an archetypal melting pot, a balmy oasis of tolerance and diversity, as well as a tsarist port of imperial grandeur, immortalized in film.

“People are worried now more than ever. You hear shooting in the streets, and barricades are going up. … The police are doing nothing or even going over to the side of the thugs.” That was what Lyubov ...

KIEV, May 2. /TASS/. Black balloons were released into the air on Wednesday to pay tribute to those who died in mass riots in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odessa on May 2, 2014. A mourning ...

ODESSA, Ukraine—Odessa is a tolerant, easygoing town, say local boosters. Odessa is an apathetic, apolitical town, complain the local disaffected. As protests and counter-protests have mobilized ...