Russify
verb (used with object)
Russification
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a word derived from
Russify.
Example Sentences
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He says he tries to resist Russification when he can.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
But there are also many willing collaborators who have boasted on Facebook and Telegram, posted on Instagram, and written on the Russian social network VKontakte about the transfer and Russification of Ukrainian children.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023
His proxy administrators tried to stamp out Ukrainian culture and language, but residents said the Russification efforts “just didn’t work.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
They instituted a policy of Russification, forcing Russian culture on all the ethnic groups in the empire.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The Russification of the Jews was to be promoted by translating the Bible and the prayer-book into the Russian language, "which must become the national tongue of the Jews."
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
