Folks,
I live in a large, shared house, and recently a group of Russians
moved in. They have emigrated from Russia, though I have not asked too
closely about their legal status, at least one has a work permit ..
Ivan speaks the best English, Igor speaks some, and the rest have
little more than the greetings to pass around.
Ivan, I find, was a rocket scientist. Maybe a slightly tall order,
because he did electrical systems on their rockets, but rocket
scientist has a nice ring to it .. He is doing general construction
work now, soon to migrate to electrical, but it seems almost anything
is better than staying in Russia.