Russification

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as general secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially governing the country as part of a collective leadership, he eventually consolidated power to become a dictator by the 1930s. Stalin codified the Communist Party's official interpretation of Marxism as Marxism–Leninism, and his version of it is referred to as Stalinism.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

disputed Russian republic in eastern Ukraine

The 11th Emperor of Russia (1825–1855)

disputed Russian republic in eastern Ukraine

Emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894

annexation of Crimea into Russia in 2014

alt=|thumb|Contemporary map of the Slavic people|Slavic-speaking countries of [[Europe. South Slavs appear in dark green, East Slavs in green, and West Slavs in light green.]] Pan-Slavism is a political ideology that originated in the mid-19th century, emphasizing integrity and unity among the Slavic peoples. Its main impact occurred in the Balkans, where non-Slavic empires had ruled the South Slavs for centuries. These were mainly the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice.

thumb|right|250px|Minsk, Belarus, 2011: old street sign in Belarusian (right) replaced with new one in Russian (left). Russification (), Russianisation or Russianization, is a form of cultural assimilation in which non-Russians adopt Russian culture and Russian language either voluntarily or as a result of a deliberate state policy.

thumb|250px| Novorossiya is a historical name, used during the era of the Russian Empire for an administrative area that later became the southern mainland of Ukraine: the region immediately north of the Black Sea and Crimea. The name Novorossiya, which means "New Russia", entered official usage in 1764, after the Russian Empire conquered the Crimean Khanate, and annexed its territories, when Novorossiya Governorate (or Province) was founded. Official usage of the name ceased after 1917, when the entire area (minus Crimea) was annexed by the Ukrainian People's Republic, precursor of the Ukrain

process of incorporation Siberia and Northern Far East into Russia since 1550s untill 1700s

Surzhyk (Ukrainian and Russian: , , ) is a mixture between Ukrainian and Russian languages, used in certain regions of Ukraine and the neighboring regions of Russia and Moldova. The phenomenon of surzhyk is commonly interpreted as an application of Russian-language words and idioms in combination with Ukrainian speech, which makes it essentially a heavily Russified version of colloquial Ukrainian, although the opposite process can also take place.

military occupation 1940–1991

unrest in Ukraine in the aftermath of the Euromaidan movement

2022 annexation of areas in Ukraine

historical and geographic term for Ukraine

Crimean international children center

violent transfer of children from the occupied lands of Ukraine to Russia during the Russian-Ukrainian war for the purpose of their Russification and genocide of the Ukrainian nation

2022 referendum in Russian-occupied Ukraine

1783 annexation of territory

Russian politician (1839-1904)

Trasianka or trasyanka (, ) is a mixed form of speech in which Belarusian and Russian elements and structures are combined arbitrarily. Due to the negative connotation of the word trasianka it has been suggested that in the linguistic debate the term "Belarusian-Russian mixed speech" should be used.

East Slavic language in Ukraine

thumb|300px|Latvian National Theatre decorated with Soviet symbols ([[hammer and sickle, red star, red flags and a double portrait of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin) after the Soviet occupation in 1940. The text on top reads "Long live the USSR!"]] Sovietization ( ) is the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets (workers' councils) or the adoption of a way of life, mentality, and culture modeled after the Soviet Union.

process of replacing Belarusian culture with Russian

1876 decree by Alexander II of Russia

referendum in Belarus

process of cultural assimilation of Ukraine by Russia

Donetsk status referendums, 2014

Russian imperial statesmen (1796-1866)

Mankurts are unthinking slaves in Chinghiz Aitmatov's novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years (1980). After the novel, in the Soviet Union the word came to refer to people who have lost touch with their ethnic homeland, who have forgotten their kinship. This meaning was retained in Russia and many other post-Soviet states.

phrase first used by Vladimir Lenin on 1914

secret edict of the Russian Empire

Russian noble (1815-1890)

Imperial and modern Russian irredentist ideology

1439–1552 wars between Kazan and Russia

ban on Lithuanian language publications in Russia

Narkamaŭka (, or , ) is a colloquial name for the reformed Belarusian orthography. The name is derived from the Belarusian word narkam (), which was a short form for the early Soviet name for a people's commissar, narodny kamisar () in Belarusian. Narkamaŭka is a simplified version of the Belarusian language's orthography, with some scholars claiming that it caused the language to become closer to Russian during Soviet era in Belarus.

Uniate bishop and Orthodox Metropolitan

Referendum in unrecognized state

1946 synod merging the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with the Russian Orthodox Church

book by Ivan Dziuba

19th–20th-century political movement among Ukrainians and Rusyns in Galicia

The Russian Children's Center "Orlyonok" () is a federal state all-year camp for kids aged 11–16 (school grades 6 through 10). It is located in the Southern Federal District of Russia, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, Krasnodar Krai, 45 kilometers north-west from Tuapse. Orlyonok is officially registered as the Federal State Education Organization.

Russian policy introduced in partitioned Poland

unsuccessful colonial project of the Russian Empire, which aimed to annex northern China

Belarusian orthography reform

derogatory nickname for Kazakhs who do not strive to know the Kazakh language, do not observe/do not respect Kazakh culture and traditions

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