Russification
nounEtymology From Russify + -ication, q.v. Equivalent to Russia or Russian + -ification.
1
The process of making anything Russian.
- 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.2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
2
A policy that enforces traditional Russian values either domestically or internationally.
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.
4
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Rare Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
- Antonyms
- derussification, derussianization
- Related terms
- Russificator, russificatory