A conversation in the Odesa pavilion became a language scandal :: intent :: Ukrainian media :: intentions

Odesa is back in the spotlight – not on the basis of personnel changes in the city council or in an international investment, but due to a problem that has been on the table since the beginning of the war: what language is spoken here. The incident in the city park once again attached the topic of the language tension, which also takes up regularly in peaceful everyday life.

The focus of this week: Which language is spoken in Odesa

• An ordinary verbal argument in the park became a very important and still hot topic – which language is spoken in Odesa.
• It is unclear whether the dispute over the language began. Was the Ukrainian language the main factor for insults and threats – most likely yes? Read more about the focus of the intention of this week.
• In Odesa, the situation with the Ukrainian language has become much better, although the struggle of the conditional rusophilic contingent is still ongoing, says Pavlo Derevyanko from Intent. The full version of the interview can be read and viewed.
• The administrator of the pro-Russian telegram channel “Typical Odesa” Oleksandr Sinitsyn is included in the sanction list in accordance with the President of the President of Ukraine.

The Odesa City Council receives more employees

Andriy Gerasymenko. Photo: Odesa Rathaus

• The mayor of Odesa, Gennadiy Trukhanov, has appointed an incumbent director of the new Ministry of Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations of the City Council of Odesa, which is also the main architect of the city. The department is temporarily headed by Nadiya Novikova, which was transferred by the mayor in March from the position of the director of the Ministry of Land Resources in order to direct the Ministry of Architecture and Urban Planning.
• On May 5, Hennadiy Trukhanov signed a decree that appointed the director of the department for mobilization training, military registration and defense of the city council of Odesa. In fact, the mayor Andriy Gerasymenko handed over to this position, which had headed the Odesa city council's mobilization and defense work before the department was founded.
• On May 8, it became known that an extraordinary meeting of the city council of Odesa would take place on May 13. Several questions are taken into account by the MPs. In particular, it is about changing the “Unbreakable Odea” city target for 2024-2026, adapting the city's budget for 2025 and transferring new powers to the municipal company “Heat supply of Odesa” in order to fulfill the functions of the customer for the construction of the city mobile. The event is transferred online.

The intention has found out when water tariffs will rise in Odesa

• After the end of the war law, water tariffs in Odesa are to be increased from the currently 35 Hryvnia to 55 Hryvnia's 44 Kopecks per cubic meter.
• The current tariff of 35 Hryvnias was determined before the outbreak of the full war outbreak and no longer corresponds to the actual costs of the company for water supply and waste water.
• The increase in customs is also due to the significant degree of consumer debt. During January 1, 2022, the total debt of aninfoksvodochanal was 315 million UAH, it has now risen to 462 million UAH, and in a few months it reached almost half a billion.
• The majority of the debts – 329 million or 71% – are due to the households.

Italy will give 63 million euros for three large-scale projects for the Odesa region

• On May 7, it was announced that Italy would finance three large-scale projects in the Odesa region with a total of more than 63 million euros.
• The first agreement provides for a grant of € 27.5 million for the restoration of Odesa architectural monuments. The funds are used to restore the Odea Philharmonic (the former new exchange building), the Potocki Palace, the Abaza Palace (where the museum of western and eastern art is currently located) and to restore the literary museum.
• The second loan agreement provides for the assignment of EUR 30 million on favorable conditions: 20 years, of which the first 10 periods of grace are without repayment of 0% per year. The money is used to build a new building of the regional children's hospital in Odesa.
• The third project is to improve irrigation systems in the region, which is of crucial importance in connection with climate change and drought as well as for the country's nutritional certainty. It is planned to attract 6.1 million EUR in scholarships for the reconstruction of irrigation systems in the Odesa region.

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