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Voina

Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Russia who moved to the US in 1989, sits at a journalism reunion in Boston with reporter Peg Simpson.

Journalist Vladimir Voina on leaving Russia, buying beer, and the ‘foolish’ US government shutdown

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Inspired by Philadelphia’s South Asian American Digital Archive, and its project that collects immigrants’ stories about their first days in America, we’ve begun gathering similar stories from immigrants throughout the globe. This next installment comes from Vladimir Voina, a journalist from Moscow who has written for Russian and US newspapers. In 1989, he moved to Boston for a journalism fellowship and stayed. He spoke about his early memories of America with The World’s Global Nation editor Monica Campbell.

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