{"id":4898,"date":"2026-08-02T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:06:26","slug":"the-weaponized-word-how-russia-turned-its-language-into-an-instrument-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=4898","title":{"rendered":"The Weaponized Word: How Russia Turned Its Language Into an Instrument of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veridica.ro\/en\/opinions\/the-weaponized-word-how-russia-turned-its-language-into-an-instrument-of-war\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"The Weaponized Word: How Russia Turned Its Language Into an Instrument of War\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veridica.ro\/storage\/20999\/conversions\/01KYHEYV6CHYHSPE1MMRF6MHKA-social.webp\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.veridica.ro<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">The Weaponized Word: How Russia Turned Its Language Into an Instrument of War<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Russian has been, for several hundred years, a tool for promoting Moscow&#8217;s policies. Tsarist Russia used it as a tool of imperial assimilation, the Soviet Union as a carrier of communist ideology, and Putin&#8217;s Russia as a marker of its claimed sphere of influence.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-4898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4898\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}