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The Consulate-General of Russia in San Francisco was a diplomatic mission in the 2790 Green Street building in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. It was operated by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [1] The building of the former consulate remains government property of Russia. [2] [3]
This is a list of foreign diplomatic missions located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States.As of November 2024, the area hosts 41 consulates-general from 41 countries (Mexico has two). 38 are located in the city of San Francisco; there is one each in Palo Alto, Burlingame, and San Jose.
Russia established several consulates in the United States and Canada to cater to Russian immigrants. In 1917, the Tsarist government vanished, with a number of consuls who maintained tsarist loyalties establishing the "Council of Ambassadors" ( Russian : Совещания послов ), through which they worked as embassies without a ...
William Westerfeld, a German-born confectioner, arrived in San Francisco in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he had established a chain of bakeries. He hired local architect Henry Geilfuss [3] [4] to design for his family of six a 28-room mansion with an adjoining rose garden and carriage house. The house was constructed in 1889 at a cost of $9,985 ...
President Biden on Friday announced more than 500 new sanctions against Russia over the death of jailed dissident Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine. “Two years ago ...
Consulate 1950 [116] Saint Louis Cuba: Consulate 1960 [62] Saint Paul Ethiopia: Consulate-General 2021 [84] [85] Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands Philippines: Consulate-General 2012 [117] San Francisco Cuba: Consulate-General 1961 [62] Egypt: Consulate-General 2014 [118] Iran: Consulate 1980 [119] Nigeria: Consulate-General 1989 [119] [120] Russia
Liberal netizens tore into Sen. Deb Fischer's (R-Neb.) elderly husband Bruce for appearing to turn down Vice President Kamala Harris' handshake last week, but viral footage that swirled online ...
The Congress of Russian Americans (CRA) was founded in 1973 by Russian immigrants to the United States, including White émigrés from the Russian Empire, who were opposed to communism. The CRA's original intention was to prevent Russophobia from being the basis of Western anti-communism during the Cold War by advocating the distinction between ...