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‘Khokhol’ Offensive to Ukrainians and Should Not Be Used in Public, Moscow Scholar Says

July 7, 2015

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. […]

‘Ukrainian’ Now a Synonym for ‘A Free Individual’ in the Post-Soviet Space, Portnikov Says

November 2, 2014

Staunton, November 1 – “A Ukrainian political nation has been formed,” Vitaly Portnikov says, something that has been noticed not only by those “who love and support it” but also by “those who hate it.” As a result, on the post-Soviet space, it has become “a synonym for a free individual,” and its hymn “the […]