The war in Ukraine has an important linguistic dimension that should not be overlooked. But if Russian is the language of Vladimir Putin, it is also used daily by many of his opponents, recalls The standard.
Insults, threats, attacks. As the Russian invasion continues in Ukraine, accusations of Russophobia increase in Germany or Austria. “A young girl would have been called ‘russian slut’ in a Berlin school”, relate The standard in Austria. Two other people “would have been thrown from a taxi”. Their common point? They all spoke Russian.
For Russian specialist Magdalena Kaltseis, it is clear that the war in Ukraine “is not only a physical conflict, with weapons”. She is too linguistically driven. Vladimir Putin’s threatening speeches against the Ukrainian government are made in Russian, she explains in the pages of the Austrian daily. Just like the media campaigns ensuring that “hunts for Russian speakers” take place in the self-declared breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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