OMFO: I come from Odessa - an area that is closely linked with Balkan culture. Odessa was a part of the Ottoman Empire, and the territory has been home to many different ethnic groups – Gypsies, Moldavians, Greeks, Armenians, Tatars – people who express the core of this Balkan ethnic diversity. Crimean Tatars, for instance: typical Balkan music. If you listen to music of the ...