saraseer wrote:
andre10056 wrote:Quote:
The 24 hour radio stations are reporting that, since there are one million Russian-speaking residents of New York City, all future election ballots will be printed in Russian as well as English and Spanish.
Wow. Govoritye po-russki nemnoga, andre10056 (do you speak a little russian)?
So I assume there is quite a bit of travel back and forth between Russia and NYC.

Just got back home to get your message.
Da. Ja govaryu nimnoga pa-russki. Perhaps more than a little. And, if I didn't, I'd sure learn it quickly enough as even the young kids speak it on the street. The store signs are in Cyrillic script. And Russian language radio programs play music from and discuss "the homeland".

Yes. A great deal of travel goes on between Brooklyn and Russia and Ukraine. Store owners travel back and forth on a regular basis to enter into contracts with suppliers. People visit all the time...from both sides. Kids spend the summer vacation there in order that their two parents can continue to work (and, of course, send money "home"). Immigrants arrive almost daily (such that it's an amazing thing to see how quickly the kids go from zero English to soon thereafter chattering away in Brooklyn slang...with a Russian accent).
In fact, I found out about the "situation in Ukraine" not from this site but by learning that a grandmother from the building next door was going back to Ukraine in October to help out with sick relatives (apparently, she was the only one who could provide care in that she was already retired)....which led me to do appropriate research which further led me, ultimately, to this site on November 6.