Connection with Ukraine: how an immigrant from Donetsk popularizes embroidery in the USA

In Dallas, Texas, Ukrainian Elena Jacobs opened a store of Ukrainian clothing and jewelry, as well as an embroidery workshop. This is how Donetsk resident Elena popularizes Ukrainian culture among Americans, writes Voice of America. “This is such an interesting, magical process. It's called computerized machine embroidery - the design is loaded and...

By combining Soviet and American missile technologies, the Ukrainian became a competitor to Musk

Max Polyakov is a Ukrainian who spends most of his time working in Texas and Silicon Valley. This is a man who has invested $150 million of his own money in rocket science, more than anyone except SpaceX's Elon Musk and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos, writes Bloomberg. Company…

'It's awful': how residents escaped toxic air in wildfire California

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland. Two states on the US west coast - California and Oregon - recorded the worst air quality in the world this week. Thick fog, a lingering smell of smoke and rain of ash: the skies in and around San Francisco for a while...

How much do IT specialists earn in California: immigrants talked about a career in the USA

Does it make sense for a tester to move to the USA and build a career there? Is there a demand for QA? Does anyone else need manual testers? What salary can you expect? DOU collected stories from three Ukrainian testers in the United States to find answers. Natalia ...

Elections 2020: how Ukrainians in the USA support Trump and Biden

Like other Americans, immigrants from Ukraine in the United States differ in their political preferences. There are Republicans and Democrats among them, writes Voice of America. Orest Deychakovsky is a former employee of the American Congress, today he is one of the leaders of the organization “Ukrainian Americans...

During the protests in Portland, a Ukrainian woman was arrested: who she is and what she is accused of

Multnomah County District Attorney announced Wednesday, September 9, that 31-year-old Ukrainian Kristina Solodenko is accused of, among other things, rioting after allegedly throwing a shield at an officer during an illegal gathering outside Hatfield Courthouse and County Justice Center ...

Left Google nowhere: how a Ukrainian woman created a successful startup and moved to the USA

Ukrainian woman Sofia Shvets worked at Google in Kiev and Dublin for three years, after which she quit her job and went nowhere. A few months later, she co-founded a startup Let's Enhance. In the first month after launch, it became Product of the Day at Product Hunt, ...

Soundtrack at the Grammy: how a Ukrainian from the USA created the music for Chernobyl

The requiem song “Eternal Memory” became the soul of the mega-popular TV series “Chernobyl”. Voice of America tells how a Ukrainian producer from Washington joined her recording and who performed the composition. The Ukrainian music school, traditions and performers are not inferior to Western ones, the hero of this story is convinced. What is missing,…

Ukrainians were selling fake cancer and hepatitis medicines in the US

Two Ukrainian citizens, 36-year-old Maksim Nenadov and 33-year-old Vladimir Nikolaenko, have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle and sell counterfeit cancer and hepatitis drugs in the United States. This was reported on the website of the US Immigration and Customs Service, writes ...

'We believe that people will return': how Ukrainians, who opened a beauty salon in the USA, save business during a pandemic

The Gbar beauty salon in Los Angeles was supposed to be the pride of two Kiev residents. However, the pandemic has made its own adjustments. As soon as the salon opened its doors, it had to stop working due to quarantine, writes Voice of America. The opening of a hairdressing salon in the prestigious Beverly Hills area looked like...

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