Violetta Strait moved to Alaska in 1999 and settled in Kenai, where she’s a classroom aide. She was in Ukraine when the country was fighting for its independence, and she says she can't look away from what's happening now.
Violetta Strait and her family in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine in 2014.
Strait moved to Alaska with her husband in 1999 and settled in Kenai, where she’s a classroom aide. Her relatives are still overseas. Gregory Weissenberg is a retired world history and Russian teacher from Moldova, living in Soldotna. He was in Ukraine last year, visiting a group of former students for his 70th birthday. They spent time in the capital, Kyiv.
“I think the news that I’ve been watching, I like the coverage,” he said. “The only thing … I would suggest that Americans try to put more history behind the news.”
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