'The USA is the best country in the world for ease of life': how an immigrant from Donetsk became a Cirque du Soleil artist

I got into gymnastics at the age of 5. Why did you get it? Until the age of 4, I had already broken my arm twice and my parents realized that the boy was active and that this energy had to be put somewhere. I was sent to the nearest sports school, it turned out to be a sports school ...

He knows the size of the legs of the stars of the first echelon: how a Ukrainian in the USA makes shoes for world celebrities

For nearly a century now, the main New Year's performance, the Rockettes Show, has been synonymous with festive New York, and if we're talking about the show - a corps de ballet of synchronized racket swimmers - then it's also about shoes. This is stated in the Voice of America video. And speaking of shoes...

How a Ukrainian 20 worked as a house painter in the USA for years, bought a farm in Ecuador and now grows coffee

Igor Overtchenko left Ukraine two months before the declaration of independence. In the United States, he started his own business, and then left everything and moved to Ecuador to grow coffee. In an interview with MC Today, a 55-year-old from Lviv spoke about life in a Latin country, magic ...

Taras Shevchenko Place in New York: how 'little Ukraine' lives in downtown Manhattan

New York has a whole block with shops, restaurants and cafes of traditional Ukrainian cuisine. One of the shops is a dream come true for a Ukrainian who has managed to overtake five American competitors. This is stated in the TSN plot. "Little Ukraine in the middle of New York" A street named after ...

A musician from Belarus left to conquer New York: what came of it

How many years did it take for the musician from Belarus Zisl Slepovich to get back on his feet after moving to the largest city in the United States, what he had to go through and what next - Lyubov Kasperovich writes about this in material for Tut.by. Up to 30 years...

From janitor to head teacher: how a Ukrainian realized his American dream

From a janitor to a deputy school principal - this is exactly the path that Ukrainian Taras Petryshyn followed towards his American dream. At the age of 16, he moved to the United States with his parents. When I went to get a higher education to earn a living, I got a job...

Our in exile: how a Russian-speaking designer succeeded in IKEA

IKEA is known all over the world. Olga Popyrina, a Russian-speaking designer, has been living in Sweden for many years and has a permanent contract with IKEA. She created about 45 different items for the brand, including the Frodig service and the Gottis tableware. She told The Village about ...

Why Apple recommends a service created in Odessa Khrushchev

Denis Zhadanov, Vice President of Marketing for the company that created Readdle and other well-known applications, spoke on the stage of the international summit Online Business Laboratory 2019 from GeniusMarketing. The speaker told how the company managed to create and promote applications that have already been downloaded more than 100 million times. Writes about this MC.Today. Further…

Grammarly: how Ukrainians created a $ 1 billion company in the USA

The English spelling checker Grammarly is known and loved by tens of millions of users around the world. Several years ago, Evgeny Sysoev, Managing Partner of AVentures Capital, estimated Grammarly at $ 100 million. Since then, the number of users of the service has increased tenfold, and the service ...

'Opportunity to leave the comfort zone': Belarusian spoke about work at Uber and life in New York

Andrey left Belarus in 2015. Now he works in an office in New York, trying to implement his own business project, and in his spare time he moonlights as a taxi driver at Uber. It turned out that this not only brings additional income, but also provides a good opportunity to study ...

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