Sentences with phrase «russian emigre»

One firm rumored to have pushed for a pre-sale allocation is Mail.Ru Group (formerly DST), founded by Russian emigre Yuri Milner.

Lee (Lenore) Krasner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 27, 1908, to Russian emigre parents, Joseph and Anna Krasner (Krassner).

The all - American Pollock in de Kooning's phrase «broke the ice for all of us», blazed briefly, and burnt out; the Russian emigre Mark Rothko became boxed in by an introverted abstract style.

Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who tended to paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.

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«The Brighton beach and Sheepshead Bay sections of Brooklyn have been headquarters for a smattering of emigre Russian crime gangs since the 1970s,» wrote Sewlyn Raab, an expert in organized crime, for the New York Times in 1994.

«The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 spawned thousands of powerful crime gangs — collectively known as the Russian mafia — and some of these groups, officials warn, are establishing bases among emigre communities in the United States, particularly in South Brooklyn.»

Fursenko also set up a system of multimillion dollar competitive grants to attract foreign researchers and emigres to come to Russian universities and set up labs there.

In the 1950s, for example, the French government «invited» well - known troublemakers among Russian exiles and emigres to stay in country mansions or comfortable hotels during an important visit by Soviet dignitaries.