Staunton, July 4 The word khokhol must not be used “in official or public speech,” Aleksandra Olkhovskaya of Moscow’s Pushkin Russian Language Institute says, because it denigrates those to whom it is applied and thus is offensive. It can only be used, she says, when those employing it know those with whom they are speaking. […]
‘Khokhol’ Offensive to Ukrainians and Should Not Be Used in Public, Moscow Scholar Says
July 7, 2015