Russky
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Origin of Russky
C20
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Rossotrudnichestvo, the Russian government's cultural promotion agency, lists Russky Dom in Berlin as one of its representative offices.
From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the Chinese Communist Party’s No. 3 official during an economic conference on Russky Island, near Vladivostok, in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Potanin’s standing will also have been burnished by his decision last December to move his offshore company Interros Capital from Cyprus back to the Russky Island economic zone in Russia’s far east.
From Reuters ● May 4, 2022
Driving across Russky Bridge, a $1.3bn passage across the Eastern Bosphorus strait connecting the island with Vladivostok, it’s hard to imagine what life was like before the summit.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2015
"Ah, but, young lady," Mr. Russky exclaimed, so noisily as to draw attention, "you forget that we're far from the scene of European disputes, and that our wisest course is to keep out of them!"
From The High Heart by King, Basil
One for me, one for my brother, who is just barely old enough to remember Mike Eruzione and the gang defeating the Russkies in hockey at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2012
In the opening Area 51 scene, he uses it to disarm about a quillion Russkies, and to swing in Errol Flynn style from one warehoused beam to another.
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you sure remember that, earlier, they beat the Russkies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not only do the Russkies have nothing on you in their files—neither do our own people.
From Combat by Reynolds, Mack
Because there were so many Russians in the area nobody bothered much about “Spyville,” he said, “Everybody knew it was the Russkis and that was it.”
From New York Times ● May 4, 2022
Rumor at the base always magnified the action at the front and always fancied riot and uprising in every group of gesticulating Russkis seen at a dusky corner of the city.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.
British, French and Americans thought he was letting the Russkis slip something over on the whole Allied expedition.
From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Jahns, Lewis E.
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