How to Use non-Russian in a Sentence

non-Russian

adjective
  • Most of the non-Russian European players who played there pre-war in Ukraine left and haven’t returned, which has hurt the level.
    — Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • South Korea’s Yuna Kim was the last non-Russian skater to win women’s gold, in 2010.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Those attacks are often carried out by non-Russian nationals for small amounts of money and without full knowledge of who the operations serve.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
  • One key question for the Russian space program is whether the Soyuz-5 rocket can become commercially successful and attract non-Russian launch business.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Russian crude oil is, however, significantly cheaper than non-Russian alternatives.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • This would also require a massive new effort to supply Europe with natural gas from non-Russian sources and to supply India with oil, which would cut off Russia's main revenue stream.
    — John Davenport, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • There have also been several sabotage incidents against non-Russian ships carrying Russian crude, likely caused by limpet mines, although Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for these.
    — Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
  • During the Russian Revolution, professional non-Russian troops brought valuable military expertise to the nascent Red Army.
    — Joshua Holzer, The Conversation, 22 June 2022
  • Hungary receives Russian crude oil through the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukraine, but it is also connected to the Adria pipeline, which runs through Croatia and pumps non-Russian crude oil from the Adriatic coast.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Advertisement The loss of over 1,000 major non-Russian firms exiting the Russian market upon its invasion of Ukraine represented one of the most costly penalties exacted on Putin.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The report found that, between January 2024 and August 2025, Russian crude oil was on average roughly 20% cheaper than non-Russian alternatives.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The passage of the US ban on Russian uranium imports accelerated efforts to diversify enrichment supply, and Urenco USA’s expansion would add to the limited non-Russian enrichment capacity available to American utilities.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026

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