The owner of a Russian restaurant in downtown San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter told ABC 10News that his business has experienced some difficulties amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict in eastern Europe.
“We’ve been going through some hate mail. We’ve had a lot of people call and leave threats. Call us and, you know, say that they’re going to come in and break the restaurant or blame us for what’s happening overseas,” said Ike Gazaryan, the owner of Pushkin Russian Restaurant & Bar.
“More than half of my employees are Ukrainian. I’m myself Armenian. It is a Russian restaurant only by the name,” Gazaryan said. “It bothers me mostly because it’s the other way around. I’ve donated money to the Ukrainian cause. I’ve given money to my employees to send back to their parents in Ukraine,” Gazaryan added. “We proudly have our employees wear Ukrainian flags on, you know, paintings on their face. We’re all for this war to end as soon as possible.”
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