russification

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

Equivalents

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.”

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