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The Russification of Ukraine (Ukrainian: зросійщення України; Russian: русификация Украины) was a system of measures, actions and legislations undertaken by the Imperial Russian and later Soviet authorities to strengthen Russian national, political and linguistic positions in Ukraine.
Russian and Soviet authorities conducted policies of Russification of Ukraine from 1709 to 1991, interrupted by the Korenizatsiya policy in the 1920s. Since Ukraine's independence, its government has implemented Ukrainization policies to decrease the use of Russian and favour Ukrainian.
Jan 20, 2024 · The all-out Russification of Ukraine's occupied territories. Destruction of Ukrainian identity, population transfers, humanitarian crisis, mock elections, forced mobilization and...
May 19, 2022 · May 19, 2022. KRAKOW, Poland — Fresh from its triumph over the last armed Ukrainian resistance in the devastated city of Mariupol, Russia appeared to be laying the groundwork Thursday for...
Mar 4, 2022 · The Soviets also waged an intense “ Russification ” campaign, persecuting Ukraine’s cultural elite and elevating Russian language and culture above all others. When Germany invaded in 1941,...
- Katya Cengel
Feb 24, 2023 · February 24, 2023. • 8 min read. It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the battle continues. Military and civilian deaths and injuries on both sides have been estimated in the...
Feb 25, 2022 · Ukraine has a long history of what a Poynter fact-check called an “extended tug-of-war over religion, language and political control” with Russia, but starting in 1917 when the Russian empire...
