![]() Snitsar grew up in Kharkiv a big city with 1.5 million people in the northeastern portion of Ukraine. To become citizens and bring more help to the community,” Nelyubov said.įor him that means employing people like Kristina Snitsar, a Ukrainian dancer who was in China when the war began, but saw Nelyubob’s offer online, and came to Buffalo to teach ballroom dancing with Nelyubov and get some of the success it offered. There’s almost no future and here – it’s an opportunity. ![]() People need help because it’s not safe there. Now Nelyubov said he and other Ukrainians help new immigrants, depending on what they have in common.ĭuring the war, he said, that help has been paramount. ![]() Nelyubov said he and his wife were helped by another couple in Albany, former teachers of Yana, and they quickly excelled in the Fred Astaire Dance Studio corporation. Most of the Ukrainians in Buffalo are helped by other Ukrainians. ![]() America, for better or worse, has become his new homeland. “There, it didn’t matter how hard you worked.”Ĭurrently, most of Nelyubov’s family has left Ukraine and he does not see any reason to go back. “Here you work hard, you succeed,” he said in March. Factories around the vast nation that had complemented each other were now separated and for 13 year-old Nelyubov in 1991, half Ukrainian and half Russian, the rapid move to national identity and freedom was difficult and also beset with obstacles. When the USSR broke up, many of its economic systems also broke. Nelyubov co-owned another studio in Ukraine, but he explained that success was not achievable in his homeland.
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