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...world. It’s now become something of a catch-all insult for liberals generally, and is so widespread that The Guardian named it as the defining insult of 2016. As often happens with derogatory terms aimed at a particular community, there’s been a move to re-appropriate the word as a badge of pride by the very group it’s meant to vilify. In street demonstrations and...

...world must have been unaware that these were originally Russian words, but Ukrainian transliterations and pronunciations of these geographical areas constitute a mark of respect. As Ukraine fights to unburden itself of this current and most damaging attempt at Russification (namely, annexation), the international use of Russian words to denote parts of their country must...