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  2. Z (military symbol) - Wikipedia

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    Anti-war activists in Russia have seen their property defaced with graffiti containing the "Z" symbol. Russian film critic Anton Dolin, whose door was marked with the symbol, compared the "Z" to the zombie action-horror film World War Z (2013) and described the Russian army and pro-war activists as "zombified". [63]

  3. Why the letter Z has become Russia's pro-war symbol during ...

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    Russia’s defense ministry has not explicitly commented on the use of the letter in its current context, but did post on Instagram last week that the pro-war symbol stems from the Russian phrase ...

  4. Orc (slang) - Wikipedia

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    Orc (Cyrillic: орк, romanised: ork), plural orcs (Russian and Ukrainian: орки), is a pejorative commonly used in Ukraine [1] to refer to a Russian soldier [2] [3] participating in the Russian-Ukrainian War and Russian citizens who support the aggression of Russia against Ukraine.

  5. Angry patriots - Wikipedia

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    The Latin alphabet letter Z has become a prominent symbol of pro-war sentiment in Russia.. Angry patriots, [a] [1] also known as the war party, [2] Z-patriots, [b] [3] turbopatriots, ultrapatriots, [4] and megavatniks, [5] are a loose group of Russian ultranationalist political commentators and milbloggers in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but critical of what they see as ...

  6. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Bruno Pontecorvo, after he emigrated to the Soviet Union, was known as Бруно Максимович Понтекорво (Bruno Maximovich Pontekorvo) in the Russian scientific community, as his father's given name was Massimo (corresponding to Russian Максим (Maksim)).

  7. Despite Western sanctions and the war in Ukraine, Russia's most affluent cities have seen a boom in economic growth, with modern infrastructure, digital services, and cheap mobile data usage ...

  8. Visual markers of marital status - Wikipedia

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    In many Western nations, some husbands wear a wedding ring on the third or fourth finger of the left hand. In parts of Europe, especially in German-speaking regions, as well as in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, and Ukraine, the wedding ring is worn on the ring finger of the right hand.

  9. Ze (Cyrillic) - Wikipedia

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    /ʒ/ or /z̠/ (Iron dialect of Ossetian, but /z/ in Digoron and Kudairag); clusters зж and зш are pronounced in Russian as if they were жж and шш , respectively (even if з is the last letter of a preposition, like in Russian без жены "without wife" or из школы "from school");