Sentence examples for russian background from inspiring English sources
"Perhaps because my father is Italian, and on my mother's side, we have a Russian background," she said.
Writer, of Russian background, demonstrates emotional tie to the people of the Soviet Union, but describes the disadvantages that seem to be part of the Soviet life.
When Gille was in her 50s, still wrestling with the enigma of her mother, she wrote an exquisite fictional autobiography, "Le Mirador," in Némirovsky's imagined first-person voice, bringing to the forefront the Russian background Némirovsky herself had scanted.
"Tongue in cheek, I can imagine myself having ended up as one of the Jewish-American writers of Russian background writing mostly about the neuroses of immigrants and their offspring," he said.
Investigators said that while several of the men are of Russian background or speak Russian, they have ruled out an initial suspicion that the plot could have been the work of a Russian crime syndicate.
She was the last of the women of Russian background hired by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein to run the school or its various activities since its founding in 1934.
The Ternovskiys are proud of their Russian ethnic background, but they have a complicated relationship with the motherland.
Inevitably, their Russian Caucasus background and the close proximity of their birthplace to Chechnya, with its traumatic post-Soviet history of violence and terrorism, make possible some connection to the cause of Chechen independence.
With a nod to her Russian émigré background, Kirstein once praised Ms. Gleboff for bringing "a perfect blend of dynastic order and New World energy to carry out the basic principles set by Balanchine decades ago".
As the US intervened in Google's challenge to Beijing, the source told the Guardian the company's decision was largely influenced by the experiences of Sergey Brin's Russian refugee background.
Born in Simferopol in Crimea, he has a Russian military background and says he has both Russian and Ukrainian citizenship.
