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RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN POPULATION QUADRUPLED IN SPOKANE, CENSUS SHOWS
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The Columbian
05-24-2002
SPOKANE (AP) Eric Miller bakes 90 loaves of bread each day in a bakery named after Mariupol, a city in Ukraine.
In fact, many who visit this business are among 200 Spokane-area residents who were born in Mariupol.
From 1990 to 2000, the number of people of Russian or Ukrainian ancestry more than quadrupled in Spokane and more than doubled in Spokane County, census data showed.
"We live here, we are part of the com...
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