Definitions
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- adjective
Russian -speaking . - noun A person who speaks Russian.
Etymologies
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Examples
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[…] Although I missed the real action (which, since it now appears to have resulted in the loss of at least two lives, should perhaps not be trivialized), I felt like I was there for the second-most-important thing: the days during which Moldovans - opposition voters and PCRM voters; educated and otherwise; Russophone, Romania-oriented and otherwise - were doing their best to make sense of what had happened.
Global Voices in English » Moldova: “Making Sense of Recent Events” 2009
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Russophone bloggers wrote about their killing, and Dean C.K. Cox posted a report from the Russian daily Kommersant on the LightStalkers forum:
Journalists Killed, Foreigners Evacuated in South Ossetian War 2008
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Reactions to Solzhenitsyn's death are already beginning to appear in the Russophone blogosphere, and here's one post on the writer's legacy (RUS), by LJ user markgrigorian:
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No, I love them too and I'll bet other Russophone readers do as well; if you find such a dictionary, do let me know.
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I meant to call you a Russophone, but my brain slipped.
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And speaking of context, can any of my Russophone readers tell me what "треплешь парк" means in the fifteenth stanza of Памяти Геннадия Шмакова?
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Estonians look at the electoral map of Ukraine with its Russophone, industrial east and see Ida Virumaa, perhaps glad that they've only got one county like that, rather than half a country.
Itching for Eestimaa Giustino 2010
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Ukraine has managed reasonably well to accommodate its various minorities - not just the Russophone one - by providing generous autonomy for Crimea, for instance.
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Ukraine has managed reasonably well to accommodate its various minorities - not just the Russophone one - by providing generous autonomy for Crimea, for instance.
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Their city is looking better; it certainly did not live up to the ominous reputation of the Russophone cities of Estonia's northeast.
Itching for Eestimaa 2008
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