While polls within Russia indicate overwhelming popular support for President Vladimir Putin’s policies and actions in eastern Ukraine, the hundreds of thousands of Russian immigrants living in New York seem divided in their reactions to recent developments.
Lev Borschevskiy, a veteran journalist and active member of the Russian American Community Coalition based in New York, calls Putin’s Ukraine policies “morally indefensible.” Yet he recognizes that there is passionate disagreement about it within his community.
He was shocked last week to witness an altercation in a Russian American nursing home. “One group was pro-Russian, [and the] other was pro-Ukrainian. That …read more
Source: Voice of America
