How does an American-Ukrainian family with different political views get along in the USA?

Members of the American-Ukrainian Yemets family, living in Los Angeles, hold different political views. Yuri supports the current president, and his wife and son support Joe Biden. Therefore, heated debates arise at the family table, writes Voice of America. Elizaveta is busy in the kitchen, cooking...

Knocked down and escaped: in Arizona, a Ukrainian woman with two children got into a terrible accident

9-year-old Edward Lauter was killed and his 10-year-old brother Max Lauter was seriously injured in a crash that occurred on September 30 in Tucson, Arizona. The children, along with their mother, an immigrant from Ukraine, got into an accident - they were hit by an SUV, writes SweetJames. By…

Immigrant from Ukraine died from COVID-19 in Iowa: seven children were left without a father

On October 16, 45-year-old Yaroslav Ilnitsky, an immigrant from Ukraine, died at a hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. The man has been fighting a coronavirus infection for 4,5 months. Early in the morning of May 31, Yaroslav was brought to the emergency room with dangerously low oxygen levels and severe symptoms of coronavirus ...

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, ...

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