BACKSTORY--Senator Schumer said his caucus has not yet decided on whether to withhold their votes on Pres Trump's FBI nominee. Sen Schumer wants to make sure there is a thorough investigation of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
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QUESTIONS: Have there been any investigations of Russian interference in Sen Schumer's races?
Sen Schumer's Congressional District and his Assembly district saw great waves of Russian citizens move into the area.....and are represented by Sen Schumer and then Cong/Assemblyman Schume.
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LITTLE ODESSA---THE BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S A MINITURE VERSION OF "LITTLE RUSSIA."
Russians in New York get a taste of the Motherland in Little Odessa (named after the Ukrainian city that was once part of Imperial Russia), an insular neighborhood just blocks from Brooklyn's Brighton Beach boardwalk A place that's a perfect microcosm of the former Soviet Union.
Once a summer getaway for wealthy New Yorkers, Brighton Beach saw an influx of Jewish immigrants escaping fascism and Nazism in Europe around the time of World War II. The 1970s brought a second wave of Ukrainian Jews from the time the Soviet Union relaxed its immigration policies, through its dissolution.
The neighborhood was filled with young families once again, and it became known as "Little Odessa," after the port city on the Black Sea.
Today, the culture thrives in its odd shops, food emporiums serving traditional delicacies, and colorful, Russian-speaking characters.
http://www.businessinsider.com/tour-new-york-little-russia-brighton-beach-2014-1
(HAT TIP WIKI) The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent significant changes there led many Russian citizens to immigrate to the United States.
Many of the Soviet immigrants of the late 1980s and the 1990s primarily speak Russian......they live in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY.
So many Russian citizens immigrated to Brighton Beach that the area became known as "Little Odessa."
In the early 2000s," Oceana," a high-income ocean-front condominium complex, was constructed. Oceana has become the destination of wealthy businessmen, entertainers, and senior govt officials from the former Soviet Union.
A Russian-speaking theater near the waterfront,features performances by actors from Russia, and other countries.
The major Russian criminal element in Brighton Beach was the international Russian mafia group, known as vor v zakone or "vory," and the first vory crime boss in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, was Evsei Agron, who controlled the area's crime during the 70s and 80s until his death in 1985.
After the fall of the Soviet Union in the 90s, many ethnic Russian criminals illegally entered the United States, coming primarily to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The infamous vor Vyacheslav Ivankov, who dominated the Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, underworld until his arrest in 1995, arrived during this wave.