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Russification

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See also: russification

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Etymology

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From Russify +‎ -ification, from Russian.

Noun

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Russification (uncountable)

  1. The process of making anything Russian.
    the Russification of Western rock music
    • 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
      As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff.
    1. A policy that enforces traditional Russian values either domestically or internationally.
    2. Localization of a software or hardware interface (e.g. text on buttons of a washing machine) into the Russian language, whether using Cyrillic or transliteration. See Computer Russification.
    3. (computing, rare) Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.

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