Ours in the USA: how to adapt in America, if you were a star in your homeland

Artem Starchenko and Victoria Sukhareva were famous musicians in Russia: Artem played in the White Dew ensemble, Victoria was a soloist at the Moscow Operetta Theater. Several years ago, the couple decided to start a new life in the USA. Their story is told by the Voice of America. Artem was born in...

How Ukrainians built a successful leather goods business in the USA

What started as a hobby in a Kiev apartment has grown into a successful business in the United States: two Ukrainian families fulfilled the American dream by building a leather accessories company with clients around the world. Until 2017, olpr. Leather Goods Co. in the North ...

New York restaurant through the eyes of a waitress from Russia

My interlocutor, a pretty young blonde named Maria, came to New York from Moscow several years ago, when she was only 22 years old. In the capital of Russia, she moved, one might say, in a bohemian environment - she worked in the theater as a prop artist, studied...

Ours in the USA: as a disabled girl from a Russian orphanage became a Paralympic champion

She, a 13-month-old girl with a congenital deformity of her legs, was adopted by an American family from an orphanage in Irkutsk. Today the name of this girl is known all over the world. The story of Jessica Long, a thirteen-time Paralympic swimming champion, is told by the Voice of America. Her story is truly unique. ...

How Belarusian passed in the USA from scavenger in strip-bar to trucker

In search of adventure and a better life, many Belarusians leave thousands of kilometers from home. Many of them emigrated to the USA, trying to find their vocation there, to make dreams and youthful ambitions come true, starting a new life. Many tried to find themselves in ...

Why I left America: the story of a Russian who returned home

In perestroika times, foreign countries seemed to Russians a promised land: it is easier to make money in the USA, the people there are exceptionally friendly, education and medicine are at the highest level. Many were leaving. Some eventually decided to return. RIA Novosti tells the story of Andrei (he did not ask for his last name ...

Unusual Professions: How Russian Worked as a Bounty Hunter in the USA

“Headhunters” are iconic characters in American Westerns and frequent characters on television shows. Their job is to catch those who have escaped justice for a reward. Despite all the controversy surrounding this practice, this institution, formed in insular England over the course of 18...

Our people in the USA: Meeting an American with an American airplane changed the life of a Russian journalist

Galya was a journalist for the Pravda newspaper for many years and was involved in Arctic research. An incident changed her life: on board a military plane she met an American. This story is about what Galya Morrell and... have experienced and achieved over the years of living in America.

Our USA: as a photographer after Chechnya came to America and gained worldwide fame

Pavel Antonov is an internationally renowned photographer working in the fashion and show business industry. His portfolio includes the covers of Vogue, ELLE and Vanity Fair magazines, working with the New York Times and Financial News Media, shooting for the Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center. It is his…

A Russian woman in the USA talks about living on credit, managing a budget and big tips

Tamara Morozova told the publication “Takie Dela” her story of immigration to America. I am a Siberian, from Novosibirsk, and my husband is Kazakh. In the last years before leaving, we lived in Moscow, where we didn’t like many things - the environment, crowds and bustle. But we made the final decision due to the political situation. In December 2011, when...

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