Dzhokar Tsarnaev often had to correct his friends who mistook him for Russian, his college classmate and friend, Giovanni, told CNN's sister network HLN on Friday.

CNN: Suspects described as brothers from Russian Caucasus

Dzhokar Tsarnaev was acutely aware of his ethnicity, and took pains to correct his friends who misidentified him as Russian, his college classmate and friend, Giovanni, told CNN's sister network HLN.

CNN: Suspects described as brothers from Russian Caucasus

My grandmother, bored by inactivity within weeks of the move, created a job for herself at a commuter college in Sarasota, teaching Russian literature to tanned students who seem (based on my one classroom visit) constantly alarmed by her profanity, her heavy sarcasm, and her word-perfect memory of Pushkin's verse.

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The purchase was made in the name of a trust for Ekatarina Rybolovleva, a 22-year-old college student and daughter of Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian now based in Monaco who made a fortune in potash fertilizer.

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Born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian immigrants, Eisenstadt got a degree in statistics from the City College of New York and then went off to war in 1943, serving in Europe with the Army's 8th Armored Division.

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