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Other airlines have taken varying approaches to requiring vaccines for employees. Southwest Airlines said at the end of February no employees had lost jobs over vaccine rules. At American Airlines, unvaccinated employees, including those with religious or medical accommodations, were required to complete weekly health declarations, wear masks and social distance.

“Among Ukrainian citizens, as well as among those who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine, there are many ethnic Russians and even more Russian speakers, given that in Soviet times many ethnic Ukrainians were more proficient in Russian than Ukrainian,” Gans-Morse said. “So, with all of this in mind, until quite recently it would have seemed completely natural, as well as politically insignificant, for many Ukrainian restaurant owners in America to use a Russian name for a restaurant and to characterize their establishment as ‘Russian,’ especially given that most Americans prior to Russia’s invasion couldn’t even find Ukraine on a map.”

In this photo provided by the New York Stock Exchange, trader John Romolo works on the trading floor, Thursday, March 10, 2022. Back down went stocks on Wall Street Thursday as global markets keep swinging on uncertainty about where inflation, interest rates and the global economy are heading. (Allie Joseph/AP)