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Russian-American

Noun

Meaning

Russian-American (plural Russian-Americans)

An American with Russian ancestry.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

After the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867, the Alaska Commercial Company acquired the assets of the Russian-American Company and constructed several posts at various locations on the Yukon River. Source: Internet

Alaska seeAlso The Russian-American Company was formed in 1799 with the influence of Nikolay Rezanov for the purpose of hunting sea otters for their fur. Source: Internet

Krycek is a Russian-American, the son of Cold War immigrants, and first introduced as an FBI Special Agent assigned as a temporary investigation partner to Fox Mulder. citation citation Krycek proceeds to work with Mulder and attempts to gain his trust. Source: Internet

Herman had a deep love for the native Aleuts: he stood up for them against the excesses of the Russian-American Company, and once during an epidemic he was the only Russian to visit them, working tirelessly to care for the sick and console the dying. Source: Internet

The Russian-American poet Joseph Brodsky once manifested that "The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity. Source: Internet

On that trip Rohrabacher also met briefly with a Russian-American lobbyist who arranged the now famous June 9, 2016, meeting at Trump Tower between campaign officials and Russians promising dirt on rival Hillary Clinton. Source: Internet

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