Former Soviet Immigrant Reflects on War in Ukraine

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Nastia Voynovskaya, an associate editor for KQED Arts, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and raised in the Bay Area and Florida after her family immigrated to the U.S. in the late nineties. In a recent story for KQED, she shares that for many former Soviet immigrants, Russia’s war on Ukraine is horrific. She writes: "Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine feels particularly vile because it’s so contrary to the kinship many people from both nations feel." A kinship Voynovskaya feels in her own family, which includes a Ukrainian stepfather, and that she felt at early protests held in San Francisco against the war. We’ll talk to Voynovskaya about her reflections and how some former Soviet immigrants are reacting to Russia's war on Ukraine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Welcome back to Forum.
0:37.2	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:39.0	Nastia Bonofskaya was born in St. Petersburg, but she grew up here in the Bay Area after her
0:43.9	family immigrated to California in the late 1990s.
0:47.6	And though she's Russian by birth, her stepfather is Ukrainian.
0:50.4	Her little sister is too.
0:51.9	You may also know her as an associate editor on our KQED arts team.
0:55.7	Thank you so much for coming on, Nostia.
0:57.4	Thanks for having me, Alexis.
0:59.3	We also want to get our listeners involved right away.
1:03.0	Are you an immigrant from the former Soviet Union or are your parents immigrants from the former Soviet Union?
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