Return to Russia: Man seeks to build cultural bridges
(World News USA)

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) - Earlier this summer, Yuri Rashkin stood in the stairway of the Moscow apartment building where he lived as a boy. Memories rushed over the 44-year-old as he remembered the day his father handed over the keys to the front door before moving his family to the United States. Rashkin returned to Russia in June for the first time in more than 30 years. He did not expect to be so emotionally charged with thoughts of childhood. `A lot of it had to do with me not being able to share any of this with my parents,` Rashkin explained. Both are deceased. Rashkin, who speaks Russian and is a U.S. citizen, went to his native country to see and experience things firsthand. `I wanted...