Russian District in Philadelphia: Our People in America Are Past in the Past

Statistics show 26 thousand Russian-speaking residents in Philadelphia. Bustleton and Somerton, areas away from the city center, are sometimes called "Little Odessa" due to the significant presence of Ukrainian, Uzbek and Russian immigrants there. Immigrants from Russia, some of whom were poor people without a certain...

7 stories about 90's emigrants: how they left Russia and why they (did not) return

The author of this material, Olga Kaminka, knows well whether it is easy to be an emigrant: she lived in Denmark from 1992 to 1996, then returned to Moscow and outlined her experience of survival in the punk novel "My 90s". The fates of the emigrants of the 90s developed in different ways, but ...

The court announced the names of all Russians detained in the United States in a fraud case for $ 4,5 million

25 defendants are indicted by a federal court in Manhattan for using a multimillion dollar fraud and money laundering scheme. The conspirators published fake car advertisements, defrauding victims nationwide for more than $ 4,5 million. Jeffrey S. Berman, United States attorney in ...

In the US, detained four Russians on suspicion of money laundering and fraud

Four Russian citizens were detained in the United States on suspicion of money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. The Russian Consulate General in New York reported this on Twitter. Two of the detainees were taken into custody in Los Angeles, the third was detained in New York, about...

How does the American island, which was once Russian

The climate of Unalaska Island is one of the harshest places on the planet. In the late 1700s, the Aleutian archipelago became a colony of the Russian Empire, and to this day many local residents have Russian surnames. There is also an Orthodox Church here, but there are only so many parishioners...

How the Russian-speaking LGBT community in New York and the activists of Brighton Beach quarreled

In New York, a scandal is growing between the Russian-speaking LGBT community in the person of Rusa LGBT co-president Alexei Gorshkov and one of the pro-Trump activists and possible candidate for the New York City Council from Brighton Beach, Malky Shagar. The story began with an air on the RTVi channel, dedicated to the state social ...

As a Russian went to the United States, worked as a taxi driver and went into the American army

A resident of St. Petersburg Ildar went to the United States in search of an ideal life. He managed to work as a waiter, taxi driver and ambulance driver, and eventually went to the American army. "Lenta.ru" published a Russian story about life in the United States in the first person. I moved to ...

Group of Russians in New York accused of organizing a network for the provision of sex services

Manhattan prosecutors have accused a group of Russians of promoting prostitution and organizing a network for the provision of sex services. Russian Ksenia Khodukina grew up in Chelyabinsk, then she moved to New York and later to Florida, where she runs a beauty salon called “Beauty by Ksenia” in Hallandale Beach.…

The wife of a Ukrainian pianist, who killed her daughters in the United States, escaped prison and execution.

Sophia Tsygankova, 34, the wife of the famous Ukrainian pianist Vadim Kholodenko, was acquitted by a Texas court after being accused of murdering her own daughters. The woman was declared insane and was ordered to be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Two years ago, Tsygankova strangled her little daughters with pillows, after which she tried to end ...

In the US, a Russian woman was detained on suspicion of espionage

On the day of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Russian citizen Maria Butina was detained in Washington on charges of allegedly unregistered activity in the United States as an agent acting in the interests of the Russian Federation. This is stated in a statement released on Monday ...

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