Russian businesses in the U.S. facing underserved backlash

across the country people are showing their support for ukraine but in some cases a backlash against russia is hitting american businesses hard cbs michael george has more backlash to the russian invasion of ukraine is leading to some misguided hostility in the u.s the owner of san diego's pushkin russian restaurant says they've been getting distressing messages someone said that they would come by and blow up the restaurant and and you know this is going to be a payback for what the russians are doing in ukraine owner ike kazarian isn't even russian he's armenian and many of his staff are ukrainian new york's russian samovar restaurant says they've lost 60 percent of their customers the co-owner is half ukrainian we have nothing to do with the war we want the war to end many russian-themed businesses including new york's iconic russian tea room are publicly stating they stand with ukraine and denounce the invasion hoping customers don't blame them for the actions of vladimir putin at the same time people in the u.s are finding ways to support ukraine [Music] from ukraine's national anthem performed at the metropolitan opera to rally showing solidarity to a line down the block at a ukrainian restaurant in new york one texas company is working hard to keep up with the demand for ukrainian flags at boston's brigham and women's hospital oncology surgeon and ukrainian native dr nelia melnichuk filmed a training video to teach ukrainians how to treat the wounded the smallest thing i can do i wish i could do more michael george cbs news new york

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Keywords: CBS Weekend News, CBS News, video, news, russia, ukraine, crisis, attack, invasion, boycotts, Russian business, restaurants, war, hostile, unfair, protests, america, vladimir putin

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Length: 1min 46sec (106 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 06 2022