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2025-01-06 18:49:26 UTC - HELPFUL
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Odesa is a city in Ukraine. The Economist is using the colonial Russian spelling for that name, and is enflaming the very conflict it seeks to describe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odesa https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2022/20220329/Kyiv-Odesa-and-what-s-in-a-name https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/13/kyiv-kiev-ukraine-cities-why-spelling-matters/7231437001
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