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Larisa Alexandrovna
Larisa Alexandrovna (born 1971) is an American journalist, essayist, and poet. She has served as the managing editor of investigative news of ''The Raw Story'' and contributes opinion and columns to online publications such as Alternet. She is also an American blogger for the ''Huffington Post'' and for her own journalism blog, at-Largely. Alexandrovna has had her work referenced in publications like ''Rolling Stone'', ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair'', and ''Newsweek''. Early life Alexandrovna was born in Odessa, Ukraine, Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Ukraine to Jewish parents Aleksander Yurovich, a physicist, and Klavdia Borisovna, an accountant. In the Soviet Union, Jews were discriminated against by the state. She has written of her childhood that even as a child, she was able to understand that her family was treated differently: The family came to the United States after traveling an "entire year maneuvering our way throughout Europe in the common trajectory of Soviet refug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odessa, Ukraine
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
