Russification

The process of making anything Russian.

Noun

  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...
    1. A policy that enforces traditional Russian values either domestically or internationally.

    2. 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.

    3. (computing, rare) Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.

Origin

From Russify + -ification, from Russian.

Antonyms

derussification derussianization

Related

Russificator russificatory