(a.) Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Russia; the language of Russia.
Example Sentences:
(1) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(2) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(3) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
(4) Russian anti-gay law prompts rise in homophobic violence Read more “The law against gay propaganda legitimised violence against LGBT people, and they now are banning street actions under it,” Klimova said.
(5) They say there aren’t Russian troops [in Ukraine].
(6) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(7) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(8) These days, all Russian 15-year-olds study War and Peace as part of their national curriculum.
(9) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(11) Kiev said the jets were downed by a missile launched from Russian territory , and that the pilots had parachuted out.
(12) Kerry presented Lavrov with a dossier of quotes from Russian media that “do not help improve Russian-American relations”, according to Russian television.
(13) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(14) Russia Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian dolls in the likeness of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
(15) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
(16) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
(17) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(18) When Vladimir Putin kicks back on New Year's Eve with a glass of Russian-made champagne, and reflects on the year behind him, he is likely to feel rather pleased with himself at the way his foreign policy initiatives have gone in 2013.
(19) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(20) The Australian prime minister and the Russian president discussed the Malaysia Airlines tragedy during a 15-minute meeting on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit on Tuesday.
Russophobia
Definition:
(n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kremlin has issued a tight-lipped response to the resignation of US national security adviser Michael Flynn , as Russian MPs and state TV suggested he was the target of a smear campaign and that his departure was evidence of Russophobia.
(2) Russophobia The Russians are rather more crude in their approach, labelling everything they don’t like as “Russophobia”.
(3) Either Trump hasn’t acquired the independence he sought and is being subsequently [and not without success] driven into a corner, or Russophobia has already struck the new administration from top to bottom.” Alexei Pushkov, a senator who was previously foreign affairs committee chairman in the lower house, tweeted : “The departure of M. Flynn is probably the earliest resignation of a president’s national security advisor in all of history.
(4) Last year the Russian culture ministry attacked the Golden Mask theatre festival as “systematically supporting performances that evidently contradict moral norms, provoke our society and contain the elements of Russophobia”, for example, while the book Flags of the World was withdrawn from the shops because an MP called its (factual) claim that Lithuania sought independence from Russian rule as “Russophobic”.
(5) Criticism from the west before the Winter Olympics in Sochi over human rights issues and widespread corruption was met with confusion and anger in Russia, where many government officials believe it was a product of "Russophobia" or a specific plot to discredit the country.
(6) He had previously accused his critics of “Russophobia”.
(7) Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has even claimed to spy a “fashion for Russophobia in certain [European] capitals”, presumably because they don’t want to roll over and condone Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine .
(8) Russian authorities want to show that Ukraine’s government, which it calls a “military junta”, is ideologically obsessed with nationalism and Russophobia.
(9) Equally, if Trump gave him nothing, Putin’s loyal media back home would brand the US president a prisoner of domestic opposition and “Russophobia” – unable to act on his more pro-Moscow instincts.
(10) La Stampa has noted pro-Russian remarks by two M5S officials, Alessandro Di Battista and Manlio Di Stefano , who have both made trips to Moscow and railed against “growing Russophobia” in the west.