Moldovan-American Chamber Of Commerce
Moldovan Americans are Americans who are from Moldova or are descended from Moldovans. According to the U.S. 2000 census, there were 7,859 Moldovan Americans in the United States. However, the American Community Survey indicated that the number of people of Moldovan origin greatly increased over the years, and in 2014 exceeded 40,000 people in the United States. Most Moldovan Americans are Eastern Orthodox. Demographics In the 2010 U.S. census and subsequently, the largest part of the population born in Moldova self-identified as being of Romanian ancestry. The 2015 U.S. Census Bureau estimate results based on population surveys show 20,128 people born in the Republic of Moldova who identified themselves as being of "Romanian ancestry". However, many other Moldovan-born people were of other ancestries. In 2015, 7,968 of them declared themselves to be of "Russian ancestry", probably including some Russian-speaking Jews, 3,747 declared themselves to be of Ukrainian ancestry, 332 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Romanian Language
Romanian (obsolete spellings: Rumanian or Roumanian; autonym: ''limba română'' , or ''românește'', ) is the official and main language of Romania and the Moldova, Republic of Moldova. As a minority language it is spoken by stable communities in the countries surrounding Romania (Romanians in Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Romanians in Hungary, Hungary, Romanians of Serbia, Serbia, and Romanians in Ukraine, Ukraine), and by the large Romanian diaspora. In total, it is spoken by 28–29 million people as an First language, L1+Second language, L2, of whom 23–24 millions are native speakers. In Europe, Romanian is rated as a medium level language, occupying the tenth position among thirty-seven Official language, official languages. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin which separated from the Italo-Western languages, Western Romance languages in the co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) is a demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. It regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the decennial census, such as ancestry, citizenship, educational attainment, income, language proficiency, migration, disability, employment, and housing characteristics. These data are used by many public-sector, private-sector, and not-for-profit stakeholders to allocate funding, track shifting demographics, plan for emergencies, and learn about local communities. Sent to approximately 295,000 addresses monthly (or 3.5 million per year), it is the largest household survey that the Census Bureau administers. The American Community Survey gathers information annually in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico — however it does not gather information in four major U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).http://www3. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jonathan Cheban
Foodgod (born Jonathan Cheban; 21 February 1974) is an American reality television personality, entrepreneur and former publicist. He has made appearances on the show ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' and its spinoffs. Early life Cheban was born in Moldova, Soviet Union in 1974, the only child of a real-estate agent mother, Galina, and a diamond-dealer father, Mikhail who died in 2011. He grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey and attended Fort Lee High School before graduating from Hofstra University with a communications degree in 1995. Cheban is of Russian Jewish background. Cheban was in a serious forklift accident at the age of 8, which resulted in him losing his front teeth and part of his tongue. Career Publicist After graduation, Cheban began working for publicist Peggy Siegal at her firm in New York. At one point, music manager Benny Medina called Siegal to work on Sean Combs' 29th birthday party. When Siegal rejected the offer despite Cheban's urging, Cheban accepted the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sam Zemurray
Samuel Zemurray (born Schmuel Zmurri; January 18, 1877 – November 30, 1961), nicknamed "Sam the Banana Man", was an American businessman who made his fortune in the banana trade. He founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company and later became president of the United Fruit Company, the world's most influential fruit company at the time. Both companies played highly controversial roles in the history of several Latin American countries and had a significant influence on their economic and political development. Early life Zemurray's birth name was Schmuel Zmurri (, , ''Shmuel Davidovich Zmura''). He was born to a poor Jewish family in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (present-day Chişinău, Moldova). His grandfather, Mendel Hirsh of Shargorod, was a Klezmer musician and bandleader. Zemurray grew up on a wheat farm. After his father died, he emigrated to America with his aunt in 1891 at age 14. After landing in New York, he settled in Selma, Alabama, where his uncle owned a general ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Max Vangeli
Maksim "Max" Vangeli (born 4 August 1985) is a Moldovan DJ and record producer based in San Francisco, United States. Vangeli is best known for his house music productions and collaboration with Swedish DJ and record producer Antoine Josefsson, better known as AN21. The duo is popularly known as AN21 and Max Vangeli. Biography Max Vangeli was born on 4 August 1985, and raised in Moldova until in his teens when he moved to the United States. On regular trips back to Europe he was introduced to house music. He began his career as a DJ at the University of California in Santa Barbara. To reach a larger audience and pursue his musical ambitions, he eventually relocated to San Francisco. Musical career 2008–2011: Career beginnings and early success In 2008, Max Vangeli released his debut EP entitled ''Crazed EP'' via Rising Trax. In 2009, Vangeli released the singles, "Aqua Kai," "Exit", "Fender Bender," and "Your Love", which featured Digital Lab and Simone Denny. On 9 Decembe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Isaak Shvartsev
Isaak Sergivich Shvartsev (russian: Исаак Сергеевич Шварцев) (born 1949) is a Moldavian Soviet architect, known for his work in Chișinău. In 1970 he graduated from the Chișinău Construction College, and then Chișinău Polytechnic Institute five years later. In the 1980s he designed much of the shopping centre and residential quarter in Salgannoy, Chișinău. He was also the architect of the animated film studio in Chișinău, the Educational Laboratory Complex, and a cinema in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (1986). In 1976 he won the award of the National competition of architects to design the memorial complex, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive The second (symbol: s) is the unit of time in the International System of Units (SI), historically defined as of a day – this factor derived from the division of the day first into 24 hours, then to 60 minutes and finally to 60 seconds eac .... He later moved to the United Sta ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aleksandr Kogan (scientist)
Aleksandr Kogan (born 1986) is a Moldovan-born American scientist, who is known for his research on the link between oxytocin and kindness, and for having developed the app that allowed Cambridge Analytica to collect personal details of 80 million Facebook users. He worked as a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 2012-2018 and is currently a technology entrepreneur. Early life Kogan was born in what was then the Moldavian SSR in the USSR (now independent Moldova). After Kogan’s family received death threats for being Jewish, his family immigrated to the United States when Kogan was seven. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong in 2011. Academic career Following his PhD, Kogan worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto before moving to University of Cambridge. He worked as a University Lecturer and Senior Research Associate in the Department of Psycholog ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daniella Karagach
Daniella Karagach Pashkova (née Karagach) is an American dancer. Karagach and dance partner Leonid Juashkovsky are three-time United States junior I and II Latin champions. They were the 2007 junior II 10 dance champions. Abroad, they reached the finals in the Celtic Classic, Moscow Open and Barcelona Open. Karagach and Juashkovsky were the United States representatives to the World Championships in Latvia, Russia and Barcelona. They appeared on seasons 2 and 3 of ''America's Ballroom Challenge'' on PBS. She became a professional dancer on ''Dancing with the Stars'' in 2019, winning her first Mirrorball trophy in her third season with celebrity partner Iman Shumpert. Career Karagach began a dance partnership with Pasha Pashkov in January 2009. Together, they are seven-time United States 10-Dance Champions and Latin Champions. Karagach and Pashkov were selected to represent the U.S. at the 2009 World Games in Taiwan. They made the semifinal in the world championship, taking pla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Xenia Deli
Xenia Deli (russian: Ксения Дели}, born 27 October 1989) is a Moldovan-American model. She lives in Los Angeles, California.Chrissy Rutherford, "Interview: Haters or Not: Xenia Deli is Justin Bieber's New Leading Lady" '','' 31 August 2015 (Retrieved February 1, 2016). She has been featured on several fashion magazine covers, including '''', ''FMD Magazine'' and ''Sport Illustrated of South Africa''. She also st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George De Bothezat
George de Bothezat ( ro, Gheorghe Botezatu, italic=yes, russian: Георгий Александрович Ботезат, italic=yes, June 7, 1882 – February 1, 1940) was a Romanian-Russian American engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight. Biography George de Bothezat was born in 1882 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, to Alexander Botezat and Nadine Rabutowskaja.Gheorghe Botezatu at The National Library of Moldova His father Alexander Il'ich Botezat belonged to a family of Bessarabian landlords, graduated from the department of history and philology of the [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roman Borvanov
Roman Borvanov (born 31 March 1982) is a professional tennis player who represents Moldova. He played NCAA collegiate tennis at the University of Portland. He represented the United States until the end of 2005. Borvanov has won nine singles and seven doubles ITF Futures tournaments, Futures titles in his career as well as three ATP Challenger Tour doubles titles. When he achieved his career high ATP singles ranking of 200 on October, 2011 he became the first Moldovan player to ever be ranked in the top 200. Roman was sponsored by several top tennis and sports brands, includinLoriet Sports a super-premium activewear brand, with which he reached his highest ranking. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 15 (9–6) Doubles: 17 (10–7) References External links * * * Interview with him on itftennis.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Borvanov, Roman Living people 1982 births Moldovan em ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been described as a '' sui generis'' political entity (without precedent or comparison) combining the characteristics of both a federation and a confederation. Containing 5.8per cent of the world population in 2020, the EU generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around trillion in 2021, constituting approximately 18per cent of global nominal GDP. Additionally, all EU states but Bulgaria have a very high Human Development Index according to the United Nations Development Programme. Its cornerstone, the Customs Union, paved the way to establishing an internal single market based on standardised legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states have agreed to act ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |