Word of the year (Russia)

In Russia, the Word of the Year (Russian: Слово года) poll is carried out since 2007 by the Expert Council of the Centre for Creative Development of the Russian Language headed by Russian-American philologist Mikhail Epstein. ^[1]

2015

In December 2015, Epstein reported in his blog "Snob" the following results.^[1]

• Word of the year: БЕЖЕНЦЫ (Refugees), in reference to the refugee from Middle East.
• Phrase of the year:: НЕМЦОВ МОСТ (Nemtsov's Bridge), a suggestion to rename the bridge where Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was assassinated.
• Anti-language: ОБАМА - ЧМО (Obama chmo)
• Neololgism: БЕССМЕРТНЫЙ БАРАК (Immortal Barrack, by Андрей Десницкий). The term was coined in an analogy to the "Immortal Regiment". The latter was an annual action to commemorate the nameless heroes perished in Great Partiotic War. The "Immortal Barrack" action was suggested to commemorate the perished in Stalinist Gulag labor camps.

Previous years

• 2007 — гламур ("glamour")
• 2008 — кризис ("crisis", Great Recession)
• 2009 — перезагрузка ("reset", Russian reset)
• 2010 — огнеборцы ("firefighters", 2010 Russian wildfires)
• 2011 — полиция^[2] ("police")
• 2012 — Болотная^[3] (Bolotnaya Square)
• 2013 — госдура^[4] (Gosdura, a pun with Gosduma, a Russian acronym for State Duma, dura is the feminine for durak, "fool")
• 2014 — крымнаш^[5] (a contraction of "Крым наш", "Crimea is Ours")
• 2015 — беженцы ("refugees", European migrant crisis)

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