How to Use anti-Russian in a Sentence

anti-Russian

adjective
  • Homes across the street are festooned with Ukrainian flags and anti-Russian slogans.
    Michael Crowley, New York Times, 3 July 2023
  • The ministry’s claims could not be verified, nor could claims by the anti-Russian militias about their assaults.
    Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The city is as anti-Russian as any these days, but some questioned what a Romantic-era poet from Moscow had to do with the current war.
    Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In 2019, Google restricted access in Russia to news about anti-Russian protests in Ukraine.
    Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But all those soldiers and their cause are long gone, and anti-Russian sentiment here is perhaps as angry as any place in Ukraine.
    Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
  • About 80 small-scale anti-Russian demonstrations have taken place in front of the Russian embassy in Ulaanbaatar.
    Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Fun fact: In what may be the greatest compliment of all, the film was condemned by Russia as anti-Russian propaganda.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The loyalty pledge would be only the latest crackdown on behavior and speech believed to be anti-Russian since the invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.
    Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Armenian, who came to power with anti-Russian slogans – is a traitor by definition.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN, 20 Sep. 2023
  • In general, the West has been too blunt in demanding post-Soviet countries sacrifice their own interests for the anti-Russian cause, and too quick to threaten secondary sanctions.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2023
  • The visit represented a major boost for Zelensky, whose domestic support has soared in line with national unity and anti-Russian fury since the invasion.
    Alice Martins, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
  • These forces subsequently regarded any move against Yanukovych’s anti-Russian successor Poroshenko as a betrayal of the revolution.
    Michael C. Desch, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023
  • And parents worry that their children will inadvertently reveal the family’s anti-Russian views while attending school.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Belgorod has seen several attacks by anti-Russian forces in recent months, according to local officials.
    David L. Stern, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Some Russian families fear the government’s comments could stoke a backlash — or exacerbate existing anti-Russian sentiment here.
    Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Ukrainian advances followed attacks by anti-Russian forces against at least 10 villages in Russia’s Belgorod region earlier Monday, its governor said, an escalation in cross-border fighting.
    Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • Even investigations into corruption are seen as anti-Russian.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Moscow has dismissed the accusations about Mr. Putin’s culpability, accusing Western leaders of jumping to conclusions and displaying anti-Russian bias.
    Paul Sonne, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024

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