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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Odessa .
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LJ user sabeloff posts pictures of the ruined remains of a seaside young pioneer camp in Odesa and shares the recent history of the place (RUS) - which, unfortunately, is a rather common sight in today's Ukraine:
Global Voices in English » Ukraine: The Ruins and the Greed 2009
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[…] This is an old summer camp near the 13th Station of the Bolshoi Fontan in Odesa.
Global Voices in English » Ukraine: The Ruins and the Greed 2009
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- Kathy, college student from Odesa, commenting on Sufjan Stevens 'stage persona.
thoughts dudemanflab 2004
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Telephone system: 7,886,000 telephone circuits; about 151.4 telephone circuits/1,000 persons (1991); the telephone system is inadequate both for business and for personal use; 3.56 million applications for telephones had not been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail services have been established in Kiev, Odesa, and Luhans'k by Sprint local: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev
The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol ', Pivdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv)
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Fiber-Optic Line (TAE); these lines connect Ukraine to worldwide service through Belarus, Hungary, and Poland; Odesa is a landing point for the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Local writer Issac Babel claimed Odesa had 'more charm than any city in the Russian Empire' and that's probably still true in modern-day
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Europe were invited to make their fortune here when Odesa was founded in the late 18th century by
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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Odesa is a city straight from literature - an energetic, decadent boomtown.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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She recalled that the Ukrainian students had been the first to oppose to anti-Ukrainian actions by officials, whereas the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine had expressed its strong protest against attempts to financially "strangle" a Ukrainian newspaper in Odesa region, Chornomorski Novyny (Black Sea News).
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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