Fed Up With Socialism and Antisemitism, Attorney Seeks to Clean Up NYC By Heather Robinson/JNS.org | June 03, 2021 Ukrainian-born Inna Vernikov, who practices immigration and divorce law, says she was energized to run for New York City Council by distress over the state of the city and a belief in a two-party system that provides viable checks and choices. Inna Vernikov remembers what life was like for families in the former Soviet Union when she was a child. “I remember standing in very long lines with my grandfather—he’d have a ticket so we could get one loaf of bread and one bottle of milk for the entire family,” said Vernikov, who was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine, and immigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 12.