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Post-Euromaidan neologisms or Post-Euromaidan vocabulary is the common name for the special glossary, which appeared in the Ukrainian and Russian languages in 2013-2014.These neologisms appeared in order to indicate events or to identify people during the public protests in Ukraine known as Euromaidan, and during such events as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the War in Donbas and the 2014–15 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, which resulted in the Ukrainian crisis of 2013-2015. Some of these words already existed and obtained new meaning, but a few completely new words also appeared.

Background
November 21, 2013 is considered to be the beginning of the social protests in Ukraine called Euromaidan. Initially people were protesting against the decision of the Ukrainian government to refuse the European orientation in foreign policy. By January 25, 2014, the protests had been fuelled by the perception of "widespread government corruption", "abuse of power", and "violation of human rights in Ukraine". This led to the Ukrainian revolution of 2014. After former president Victor Yanukovych fled from Ukraine, Russian authorities did not accept revolutionary events in Ukraine. They considered the Ukrainian revolution as just an armed "coup d'état". After the annexation of the Crimean peninsula by Russia in March, 2014, the first separatist movements had been taking place in several localities in Eastern Ukraine.

The escalation of the violence began in the middle of April, 2014 when pro-Russian revolts started to seize administrative buildings and police offices. To confront these events Ukrainian authorities announced the beginning of the "Anti-Terror Operation". These events influenced not only the social and political sphere but left their reflection in mass culture and linguistics. Ukrainian language gained new words which were products of the new social and political conditions. These words firstly existed as internet memes, but afterwards they became a part of everyday use in the Ukrainian language.

Most of these words are supposed to be offensive towards those with opposing political views in Ukraine and Russia. The functionality of these words interested linguists, who have therefore collected the most popular new words into vocabulary list. Firstly, the news-paper [http://ru.krymr.com/ “Krym. Realii”] and Russian linguist Hasan Huseynov presented "Post-Euromaidan vocabulary" or as it was also called “Vocabulary of the war”.

Vatnik
Vatnik is a Russian patriot, who blindly believes in Russian authority, despite the economic decay, lack of democracy and low standards of living. In the Ukrainian context the term is also used to refer people living in Ukraine but possessing a pro-Russian mentality. The word vatnik was firstly published in Russian social network – Vkontakte in 2011 as an identification of an uneducated Russian patriot who loves totalitarian authority and hates everything non-Russian. The creator of the term vatnik is Russian blogger Anton Chadsky. The word originates from the name of the warm clothes worn by poor people or prisoners in the labour camps in Siberia. Vatnik is also used to name  people with Soviet mentality and way of thinking, who regret the dissolution of the USSR. Very often these people do not understand why the nation-state Ukraine emerged and still exists.This word entered Ukraine alongside the Russian intervention in March 2014. In Ukraine nowadays vatnik is used to indicate people, mostly pro-Russian, who support the actions of separatists in Eastern Ukraine and believe in Russian propaganda. Very often the common image of vatnik is a parody of a not very successful person, usually with the Russian tricolor somewhere on his clothes and with a bottle of vodka. However, among the representatives of Russian society there are those who do not consider the name vatnik to be offensive. In particular, on Russian social network Vkontakte and overall on RUnet there are many examples of usage the word vatnik in a positive context for Russians. For example, very popular are statements such as the following: "Call me vatnik, make me feel proud". Later in 2014, a similar term for overly patriotic Ukrainians was invented. Vyshyvatnik (a mixture of vatnik and vyshyvanka – Ukraine’s traditional embroidered shirt) is an antipode of vatnik and defines a person who implicitly trusts Ukrainian propaganda and blindly hates everything related to Russia.

Colorad
Similar to vatniks, colorads are pro-Russian activists in Ukraine. The name comes from the Ribbon of Saint George. The ribbon consists of a black and orange bicolor pattern, with three black and two orange stripes. It appears as a component of many high military decorations awarded by Imperial, Soviet and modern Russia, including the recently revived Order of St. George and the Cross of St. George medal, as well as the Soviet Order of Glory award. It is also used by Russian civilians as a patriotic symbol. It is widely associated with the commemoration of World War II. In Ukraine and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), the symbol has become widely associated with Russian nationalist and separatist sentiment.

In the spring of 2014,  during the separatist movements in Eastern Ukraine, many pro-Russian activists were wearing the ribbon of Saint George on their clothes. The name colorad appeared, because of the similarity of the colors of the ribbon to the colors of the mature Colorado potato beetle. In the Ukrainian context colorads are mentally similar to vatniks, but if vatniks are mostly civilians, colorads are associated with aggression and military actions in Eastern Ukraine. There is also metaphoric meaning of the neologism colorad. In the Ukrainian context it is believed that in the same way as the Colorado potato beetle destroys a potato, colorads want to destroy Ukraine.

According to Professor Alexander Filts, chief physician of the psychiatric hospital in Lviv, the word colorad alludes to the fact that this phenomenon is difficult to fight because it is as hardy as Colorado potato beetles.

Ukrop
Ukrop (abbreviated from "the Ukrainian") is a general name for Ukrainian soldiers fighting in Eastern Ukraine. This word was created by separatists with the purpose of humiliating Ukrainians. In the Russian language the word ukrop means "dill". In the Ukrainian context this word is not perceived as offensive. On the contrary, it is used to indicate the defenders of Ukraine, Ukrainian patriots. Moreover, even military chevrons with the image of dill were designed by Ukrainian artist Andrii Yermolenko. Yermolenko says that dill is an inflorescence which discourages the Colorado potato beetle. Its seeds and flowers form the army.

After president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko visited Mariupol (a town in the Donetsk region) the word ukrop started to be described as signifying "Ukrainian resistance" ("Український опір" - Ukrainskyy Opir).

Cyborg
Cyborg is semantically very close to ukrop. Cyborg is the common name for soldiers who were defending Donetsk airport. This word indicating half-man half-machine was attributed to these soldiers because of their unexplained strength and endurance in the fights for Donetsk airport. Cyborgs defended Donetsk airport since May 26, 2014 until January 21, 2015.

The word was used for the first time in September, 2014 by one of the separatists in Donetsk. This man could not find the right explanation for why the separatists could not defeat the defenders of Donetsk. "I don't know who is defending Donetsk airport, but it's already three months, we cannot wipe them out.<...> I don't know who they are. But they are not people but cyborgs!"

The word cyborg was recognized by the dictionary of slang and modern Ukrainian language "Myslovo" as the word of the year for 2014.

Banderists
Banderist is an already existing word, which obtained new connotations during and after Euromaidan. Originally banderist was the name for the followers of Stepan Bandera, theoretician and practitioner of Ukrainian nationalism, and leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In general a banderist is a Ukrainian patriot with radical right-wing political views. During Euromaidan and subsequent events Russian politicians and media have called banderists those who have not supported Russian policies towards Ukraine. In the Russian discourse  the name banderist is equal to "fascist".

Derivative from banderist is zhydobanderivets. This is a mixture of the two words Jew and banderist. It is used to indicate a Ukrainian nationalist with Jewish origins. This term became popular in Ukraine after one of the leaders of the separatists called Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch of Jewish origins, fascist. .  The irony is that Russian propaganda considers fascists and anti-Semitic all who support a European orientation of Ukraine and independence from Russia.

Kyiv junta
Kyiv junta is the offensive name for the current Ukrainian authorities. This word is used by people who do not acknowledge the Ukrainian authorities which were established in 2014. This word is often used by Russian politicians.

Public use
In the spring of 2014, Ukrainian writer and singer Irena Karpa created a cartoon dedicated to the phenomenon of vatnik.

On December 5, 2014 Ukrainian singer Orest Lutyi recorded a song about "Vatniks".

On August 30-31, 2014 and then on November 1-2, 2014 a beneficent art festival named UKROP took place in Kiyv in order to collect money for Ukrainian soldiers.