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This category generally relates to emigrants to the United States from the (post-Soviet) Russian Federation. Articles on earlier emigrants should be assigned to one of the categories listed under "See also" below. See also: Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
The Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is the name of the group of parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in America that are under the canonical authority of the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'. They were previously known as the Russian Exarchate of North America before autocephaly was granted to the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) in 1970 ...
Additionally, it analyzes Russia's intentions and motivations in regards to their influence campaign. Issued in two forms, a classified version and a declassified version, the report drew its conclusions based on highly classified intelligence, an understanding of past Russian actions, and sensitive sources and methods.
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - Howell, New Jersey 02. The Russian Orthodox Eparchy of Eastern America and New York (Russian: Восточно-Американская и Нью-Йоркская епархия, romanized: Vostochno-Amerikanskaya i Nyu-Yorkskaya eparkhiya) is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia that is the see of its First Hierarch.
The New York Tri-State area has a population of 1.6 million Russian-Americans and 600,000 of them live in New York City. [5] There are over 220,000 Russian-speaking Jews living in New York City. [6] Approximately 100,000 Russian Americans in the New York metropolitan area were born in Russia. [7]
[1] After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Stalin ordered the deportation of Russian Germans to labor camps in Siberia and Central Asia, as he was suspicious of potential collaboration with the invaders. [2] In some areas, his forces attempted to bulldoze the German churches and reused their tombstones for paving blocks.
The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in northwestern America. Russian Americans comprise the largest Eastern European and East Slavic population in the US, the second-largest Slavic population generally, the nineteenth-largest ancestry group ...