World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...
Russian immigrant known for his ‘brilliant mind’ wouldn’t leave Palisades home
Show Caption1 of 3 Mark Shterenberg, seated, grew up in the Soviet Union and emigrated to the U.S. to start a new life for his family. He worked as an engineer for JPL and realized early on that ...
What We Know About Ahmed al-Shara, Syria’s Interim President
The rebel chief who led the overthrow of the longtime dictator Bashar al-Assad has been declared the head of government for a ...
Bauhaus and The Brutalist: the revolutionary immigrant architects whose stories inspired the film
Bauhaus architects like Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe fled Nazi Germany, but not all of them went to the US.