As a Russian voluntarily refused to work in the United States

The Russian moved to the States, got a good job, decided to buy a minivan and set off on a trip. As part of a series of materials about compatriots who have moved abroad, "Lenta.ru" publishes Dmitry's story about life in the United States. Moving Moving to the USA in my case was relatively ...

Married for life convicts: the incredible story of a Ukrainian family in the United States

There will be no conclusions or morals at the end of this article. In it itself there will be no calls to take sides, and even less justification or condemnation. This is just a side view of the history of some relationships, or rather, the history of a young ...

On real life in America, which does not show Hollywood

“America is a great country, and there are very bright people here,” says a random passerby on Brighton Beach, an elderly woman who moved to America several decades ago. - I hope I won’t be put in prison here, given the current “freedom of speech”, but the truth is that what’s bad here...

The valley of comfort: how life is different in Silicon Valley and the rest of the country

Russian developer Anton Popov who moved to the United States told vc.ru about the American mentality and the gap between the center of the IT industry and the rest of the country. In October 2015, for work, I moved from St. Petersburg to California. The company helped in the paperwork, paid for the flight and reimbursed some ...

Why Russian emigrants are so intolerant to former compatriots in the United States

If you have been living in the United States for several years, and you have experience of communicating with both Americans and former compatriots in the diaspora, you must have noticed how much more tolerant Americans are of other people's opinions than emigrants from the post-Soviet space. ...

How much money it costs to have with you if you decide to move to New York

Ekaterina Dorozhkina is the head of New York-based Starta Accelerator, which imports Eastern European startups to America and helps them enter the global market. She told Rusbase about the American lifestyle and how to plan a budget for moving to the United States. Moving ...

From fictitious marriage to deportation: the path of the main Russian mafia in the United States

Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, a failed gymnast and mental hospital patient, was one of the most famous mafiosi in Russia. The Jap achieved everything in the Russian criminal world, and at the dawn of the 1990s he left for the USA. Overseas, Jap has achieved unprecedented success, becoming...

Moving to the USA: work, pitfalls and the American dream

 The topic of emigration becomes especially relevant when the state is experiencing a difficult period, accompanied by an economic crisis and political instability. Many young people are thinking about moving to another country and starting a new life there. Vadim Myrhorod from Ukraine shared his story of moving to the USA on the DOU website, where ...

“In the US, you are nobody, everything has to start all over again”: Russian woman about life in America

Maria Podolyak worked at Yandex in Russia and was engaged in independent marketing consulting, and three years ago she moved to the United States to advise Russian startups on promotion in the American market. Maria told Rusbase about the main difficulties when moving to the USA and the specifics of conducting ...

How an immigrant from Azerbaijan became an engineer on Twitter and sold them an idea for $ 50 million

Tural Badirkhanly is the first student from Azerbaijan to receive a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born in the city of Guba, 160 km from Baku, today he works as an engineer for Twitter, in the heart of the IT industry - in Silicon Valley. - I would never...

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