What's the difference between russophobe and russophobia?
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norms, provoke our society and contain the elements of Russophobia”, for example, while the book Flags of the World was withdrawn from the shops because an MP called its (factual) claim that Lithuania sought independence from Russian rule as “Russophobic”.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.
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.