What's the difference between russophile and russophobe?
Russophile
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Russophilist
Example Sentences:
(1) Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the upper house, said it was “premature to declare Michael Flynn a Russophile” but praised him for the fact that “unlike many other high-level Americans, he was at least open to dialogue, visited Moscow and, as it turned out, communicated with our ambassador in Washington”.
Russophobe
Definition:
() Alt. of Russophobist
Example Sentences:
(1) Viktor Gushchin, an ethnic Russian historian and rights activist, claims any election in which 10% of the population has no right to vote cannot be democratic and calls Latvia a "xenophobic and Russophobic state built on Nazi principles", similar rhetoric to that which the Kremlin has used in east Ukraine.
(2) It seems that freedom of speech is completely lost in Albion’s Russophobic fog,” tweeted Konstantin Dolgov, Russia’s foreign ministry commissioner for human rights.
(3) 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norms, provoke our society and contain the elements of Russophobia”, for example, while the book Flags of the World was withdrawn from the shops because an MP called its (factual) claim that Lithuania sought independence from Russian rule as “Russophobic”.
(4) Hence the angry demands from Russia’s top officials that “the western media” – apparently a centrally controlled editorial conglomerate – cease their “Russophobic campaigning”.
(5) Those who stood behind the latest events in Ukraine had a different agenda … Nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites executed this coup.
(6) The accusations amounted to “Russophobic hysteria” , the Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday.
(7) Is it also Russophobic, the charge made by pro-Kremlin online commentators against anybody who dares to criticise Putin?
(8) The Russian defence ministry said Boris Johnson’s comments that Russia should be investigated for war crimes in Aleppo were “Russophobic hysteria”.
(9) He also reiterated allegations of Russian involvement in an attack on aid convoy last month, prompting an accusation of “Russophobic hysteria” by the Russian defence ministry .
(10) • The Russian president accused nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites of being behind the “coup” in Ukraine.