Russian Speakers Were Counted In

Obviously, they are covering their tracks. Their story is common among the roughly , Russian-speaking immigrants in the metro area who invested heavily in the real estate market in the past decade, often relying on risky subprime loans and adjustable-rate mortgages, only to see their financial foundations destroyed when the market collapsed. A large portion of the wave of new migrants to industrialize, integrate and Sovietize the recently acquired western Ukrainian territories were ethnic Russians who mostly settled around industrial centers and military garrisons. The DNC seems to be dominated by a neoconservative base that has strongly backed the Clintons' and the Obamas' hawkish stance towards Russia. Significant immigration from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other former Soviet republics began in