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Meaning of russification | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The process of making anything Russian.
    uncountable
  2. A policy that enforces traditional Russian values either domestically or internationally.
    uncountable
  3. 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.
    uncountable
  4. Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
    rare, uncountable

Examples

“the Russification of Western rock music”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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