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
  • 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
  • The war has also contributed to a national identity that will have a strong anti-Russian component for a long time.
    — Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Poland, a country whose government was (at the time) backsliding on democracy and the rule of law, but was staunchly anti-Russian, was not.
    — Joshua Keating, Vox, 20 May 2024
  • Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was being used by outside actors to stoke anti-Russian sentiment.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • After the war began, a few held out hope that the United States could join China in an anti-Russian coalition.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 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
  • The Armenian, who came to power with anti-Russian slogans – is a traitor by definition.
    — Clare Sebastian, CNN, 20 Sep. 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
  • In 2019, Google restricted access in Russia to news about anti-Russian protests in Ukraine.
    — Foreign Affairs, 3 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
  • Even investigations into corruption are seen as anti-Russian.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Russian government responded to the scandal by calling the punishments unjust and an example of anti-Russian sentiment.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Turkey positions itself as pro-Ukraine by providing military support and closing the Straits to the Russian navy, while not being anti-Russian.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Interestingly, a pro-European orientation did not equate to anti-Russian sentiments.
    — Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
  • But disappearing also wasn’t an option for the activist who raises money for Ukraine and who gained notoriety for his anti-Russian acts, including urinating on a Russian war memorial.
    — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
  • In the 1990s, the organization’s mission shifted from an anti-Russian defense pact to promoting European regional security.
    — Carla Martinez MacHain, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News following the meeting, Zelenskyy detailed how Ukraine’s battlefield innovations, namely its anti-Russian drone systems, are influencing defense partnerships worldwide.
    — Matt Finn , Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • In this world view, Ukraine has been seen as the principal platform for implementing this anti-Russian project, including the potential deployment of NATO military bases and missile systems capable of reaching Moscow within minutes, as Putin has said, justifying the war.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 18 June 2026

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