"Putin – khuylo!" or "Putin – khuilo!"
is a slogan deriding
Russian President
The president of Russia, officially the president of the Russian Federation (), is the executive head of state of Russia. The president is the chair of the Federal State Council and the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces. I ...
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
, commonly translated as "Putin
s adickhead!"
It originated in
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
in 2014, having grown from a
football chant
A football chant or terrace chant is a form of vocalisation performed by supporters of association football, typically during football matches. Football chanting is an expression of collective identity, most often used by fans to express their ...
first performed by
FC Metalist Kharkiv
Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023– ...
and
FC Shakhtar Donetsk
Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...
ultras
Ultras are a type of association football fans who are known for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tendency ...
in March 2014 at the onset of the
Russo-Ukrainian War
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...
. The phrase has become a
protest song
A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of ''topical'' songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre.
...
and is widely spread in Ukraine amongst supporters of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as those opposing Vladimir Putin in both Russia and Ukraine.
Etymology

The
obscene term (''
mat
A mat is a hard or soft floor covering that generally is placed on a floor or other flat surface. Mats serve a range of purposes including:
* serving to clean items passed over it, such as a doormat, which removes dirt from the soles of shoe ...
'') is variously transliterated as ''huilo'', ''huylo'', ''khuilo'', ''khuylo'', or ''chujlo''. Also there are dialect variants (''huila''), (''huibla''). Its core is (''
huy
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''), literally "penis", in both Russian and Ukrainian. Combined with the suffix ''
-lo,'' it is a personal insult. It can be translated as "dickhead", but its connotation is far more pejorative in those languages than in English.
In May 2014, media outlets reported that the Russian profanity ''huilo'' had been added to the ''
Urban Dictionary
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'' as a synonym for
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
.
Origin
The chant has its origins in "Surkis Khuylo!", a football chant initiated by the
ultras
Ultras are a type of association football fans who are known for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tendency ...
of
FC Metalist Kharkiv
Football Club Metalist Kharkiv, also known as Football Club Metalist Kharkov or FC Metalist Kharkov ( ), is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kharkiv that plays in the Ukrainian First League during the 2023– ...
some time in 2010, during the height of a feud between two Ukrainian
oligarchs,
Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, then owner of Metalist, and
Hryhoriy Surkis
Hryhoriy Mykhailovych Surkis (; born 4 September 1949) is a Ukrainian businessman, one of five vice-presidents of UEFA since 24 May 2013. Surkis was the president of Football Federation of Ukraine until September 2012. , then president of the
Football Federation of Ukraine
The Ukrainian Football Association (, ; UAF) is the governing body of football in Ukraine. Before 2019, it was known as the Football Federation of Ukraine (FFU; ). As a subject of the International Olympic Movement, UAF is a member of the Nation ...
who had strong historic and
family ties
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with
FC Dynamo Kyiv
The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet ...
.
The first recorded public performance of the ''"Putin khuylo!"'' chant and the song that grew from it took place in March 2014 in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv, also known as Kharkov, is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city in Ukraine. , when the local fans chanted it during their street march.
The recording was soon posted to
YouTube
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. Various groups of Ukrainian
ultras
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of major Ukrainian clubs with the exception of
FC Sevastopol
FC Sevastopol () was a Ukrainian football club based in Sevastopol. The club was a spiritual descendant of the Soviet clubs from Sevastopol such as Chaika Sevastopol. After the completion of the 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League season due to th ...
have historically held strong pro-Ukrainian political views. These football fans sided with Ukraine at the onset of the
Russian annexation of Crimea and
military intervention
Interventionism, in international politics, is the interference of a state or group of states into the domestic affairs of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something or refrain from doing something. The intervention ca ...
, as well as during the pro-Russian unrest in the east and south of Ukraine, when the city of
Kharkiv was in turmoil.
Soon, the song gained wider popularity, spreading amongst other clubs. The fans of
Shakhtar Donetsk
Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...
(
Donetsk
Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...
) and
Dynamo Kyiv
The Football Club 'Dynamo Kyiv', also known as Dynamo Kyiv, or simply Dynamo, ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society ...
(
Kyiv
Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...
), who were formerly feuding, sang the song together.
During the beginning of the
Russo-Ukrainian War
The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...
in 2014, in which Russia
annexed Crimea from Ukraine and used
proxy forces to
occupy parts of the eastern
Donbas
The Donbas (, ; ) or Donbass ( ) is a historical, cultural, and economic region in eastern Ukraine. The majority of the Donbas is occupied by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The word ''Donbas'' is a portmanteau formed fr ...
region, the ultras of various Ukrainian clubs set aside their
rivalries
A rivalry is the state of two people or groups engaging in a lasting competitive relationship. Rivalry is the "against each other" spirit between two competing sides. The relationship itself may also be called "a rivalry", and each participant ...
and chanted the song in joint street marches.
The chant became according to ''
The Guardian
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''.
Artemy Troitsky
Artemy Kivovich Troitsky (; , born 16 June 1955 in Yaroslavl) is a Russian journalist, music critic, concert promoter, radio host, and academic who has lectured on music journalism at Moscow State University. In 1988, he was described in ''The Ne ...
identified the melody of the chant
as coming from the song "
Speedy Gonzales
Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast ...
", popularised by American singer
Pat Boone
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, author, television personality, radio host and philanthropist. He sold nearly 50 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and has acted in many films.
Boone ...
in 1962.
In June 2015, the Russian
Federal Security Service
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation �СБ, ФСБ России (FSB) is the principal security agency of Russia and the main successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB; its immediate predecessor was the Federal Counterin ...
started a criminal prosecution and investigation of activist Daria Poludova for using the song on
VK. The case was dropped after Poludova's lawyer demanded a confrontation with the victim, Putin, as required by law.
When Russian television channel
TNT
Troponin T (shortened TnT or TropT) is a part of the troponin complex, which are proteins integral to the contraction of skeletal and heart muscles. They are expressed in skeletal and cardiac myocytes. Troponin T binds to tropomyosin and helps ...
aired one episode of the Ukrainian sitcom ''
Servant of the People
Servant of the People (; ''SN'') is a Liberalism, liberal, Centrism, centrist, Pro-Europeanism, pro-European List of political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine. Since both the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election and the 2019 Ukra ...
'' in December 2019,
a scene containing a joke that referenced the song, in which the fictional president played by
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...
asked () when told that Putin wore a
Hublot
Hublot () is a Swiss luxury watchmaker founded in 1980 by Italian Carlo Crocco. The company operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the French luxury conglomerate LVMH.
History
A scion of the Italian Binda Group dynasty, best known for m ...
watch, was cut out of the episode. The omission occurred only within
central Russia
Central Russia is, broadly, the various areas in European Russia.
Historically, the area of Central Russia varied based on the purpose for which it is being used. It may, for example, refer to European Russia (except the North Caucasus and ...
and the
Moscow region
Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...
, but not in the
eastern regions of Russia.
Use
In music
Several Ukrainian mainstream
rock music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo ...
bands included or adapted the chant into their music. A metal remix, released in April 2014 by AstrogentA, added instrumentation and reworked the video of the 30 March protest chant to depict its spread throughout Ukrainian football clubs.
In May 2014, the Ukrainian band released a song and a
video
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titled "Putin ''Hello''!" Their song uses a
double entendre
A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other often conveys a message that would be too socially unacc ...
, substituting the objectionable word "khuylo" with the English word "Hello!" Alluding to the "Putin ''huylo''!" chant, the video features band players wearing Ukrainian football club colors and posing as
ultras
Ultras are a type of association football fans who are known for their fanatical support. The term originated in Italy, but is used worldwide to describe predominantly organised fans of association football teams. The behavioural tendency ...
marching and chanting "Putin Hello" as the
refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin ''refringere'', "to repeat", and later from Old French ''refraindre'') is the Line (poetry)">line or lines that are repeated in poetry or in music">poetry.html" ;"title="Line (poetry)">line or lines that are repeat ...
of the song. The band members asserted,
tongue-in-cheek
Tongue-in-cheek is an idiom that describes a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner.
History
The phrase originally expressed contempt, but by 1842 had acquired its modern meaning. Early users of the phrase include Sir Walte ...
, that the linking of their song to an offensive anti-Putin chant was a misunderstanding and insisted that the only people who found the chant objectionable were Russians unfamiliar with English.
Hromadske.TV
hromadske (; lit. ''Public'') is an independent online media in Ukraine. The station was announced in June 2013 by 15 journalists, before commencing operations on 22 November 2013. It is registered as an NGO.[live
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Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film
* ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film
* ''Live'' (2023 film), a Malayalam-language film
*'' Live: Phát Trực Tiếp'', a Vietnamese-langua ...]
performance of the song by Lemonchiki Project in May 2014. The rock band
Druha Rika
Druha Rika (also Druga Rika, ) is a Ukrainian rock band from Zhytomyr
Zhytomyr ( ; see #Names, below for other names) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, administrative center of Zhytomyr Oblast (Ob ...
performed the song at their concert in June 2014. Other rock adaptations were made by
Mad Heads and
Haydamaky. The ''
Kyiv Post
The ''Kyiv Post'' is Ukraine’s first and most prominent English-language newspaper. It was founded in 1995 in Kyiv by American businessman Jed Sunden.
In 2018, the publication was acquired by prominent Ukrainian businessman Adnan Kivan, foun ...
'' reviewed nine video versions of the song and two other related songs.
In sport
In October 2014, Belarusians joined visiting Ukrainians in a performance of the chant by at a
UEFA Euro 2016
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qualifying match in
Barysaw
Barysaw or Borisov (, ; , ) is a city in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Barysaw District. It is located on the Berezina, Berezina River and north-east from the capital Minsk. As of 2025, it has a population of 1 ...
,
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...
, resulting in more than 100 Ukrainian and 30 Belarusian football fans being detained and interrogated, reportedly on suspicion of using .
Seven, all Ukrainian, were sentenced to five days in jail for obscene language, whilst one was given a 10-day sentence for allegedly wearing a
swastika
The swastika (卐 or 卍, ) is a symbol used in various Eurasian religions and cultures, as well as a few Indigenous peoples of Africa, African and Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American cultures. In the Western world, it is widely rec ...
.
In art
In December 2022, a statue giving a visual interpretation of "Putin khuylo" was erected in the English town of
Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis ( ) is a town and former municipal borough in Sandwell in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It forms part of the area immediately west of Birmingham known as the Black Country and encompasses the fou ...
, but by 5 February 2023 it had been removed.
In the US press
* ''
The Washington Post
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''
* ''
The Wall Street Journal
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''
* ''
The Atlantic
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It was founded in 185 ...
''
* ''
Time
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''
* ''
Business Insider
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''
[Russia Explodes At Ukraine After One Of Its Top Diplomats Called Putin A 'D—head'](_blank)
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, 16.06.14''
* ''
Bloomberg View
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''
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, 16.06.14''
* ''
International Business Times
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''
[Ukraine Foreign Minister Calls Russia's Vladimir Putin a 'Dickhead'.](_blank)
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, 15.06.14''
* ''
Newsweek
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''
In politics
Oleh Lyashko
Oleh Lyashko, a former Ukrainian
MP and leader of the country's
Radical Party, performed the song in May 2014 at a public rally during his
2014 presidential campaign.
Andrii Deshchytsia
Hromadske.TV
hromadske (; lit. ''Public'') is an independent online media in Ukraine. The station was announced in June 2013 by 15 journalists, before commencing operations on 22 November 2013. It is registered as an NGO.[Andrii Deshchytsia
Andrii Bohdanovych Deshchytsia (; born 22 September 1965) is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician.
From February to June 2014 Deshchytsia was Acting Foreign minister of Ukraine.
Deshchytsia was from October 2014 to June 2022 Ambassador Extraord ...]
, a then
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and foreign relations, relations, diplomacy, bilateralism, ...
of Ukraine,
uttering the word ''"khuylo"'' in reference to the
Russian President
The president of Russia, officially the president of the Russian Federation (), is the executive head of state of Russia. The president is the chair of the Federal State Council and the supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces. I ...
Putin during his plea with protesters in front of the
Russian Embassy in Kyiv on the evening of 14 June 2014, following the
shoot-down of a Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 by Russian-armed rebels. Deshchytsya pleaded the protesters to refrain from violence directed at the Embassy that would cause a
bigger diplomatic scandal. Deshchytsia stated: .
Shortly afterward,
Ukrainian President
The president of Ukraine (, ) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. ...
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiiovych Poroshenko (born 26 September 1965) is a Ukraine, Ukrainian politician and Oligarchy, oligarch who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Ukraine), Minister ...
nominated a different diplomat to lead the Foreign Affairs ministry.
According to the Ukrainian media, the presidential plan to replace the minister was known prior to the incident,
being proposed as part of a bigger reshuffle in the
Ukrainian government
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine (), is the highest body of state executive power in Ukraine. As the Cabinet of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, it was formed on 18 April 1991, by the Law ...
. Soon after, Poroshenko praised the work of Deshchytsia, who was then leaving his ministerial position, and the parliament gave the outgoing minister a standing ovation.
Deshchytsia's use of the wording caused widespread discontent amongst the Russian leadership.
However,
Geoffrey Pyatt, the
US ambassador to Ukraine, wrote on
Twitter
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that minister Deshchytsia's use of the chant had been , calling Deshchytsia
Arsen Avakov
In July 2014,
Arsen Avakov
Arsen Borysovych Avakov (, ; born 2 January 1964) is a Ukrainian politician of Armenian descent who served as the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine from 2014 to 2021. He was the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration from ...
who was the Ukrainian
Minister of Internal Affairs
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
, one of the country's major
security agencies, published a
Facebook
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post with a photo he took that showed a bus stop near
Sloviansk
Sloviansk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, northern part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The city was known as ''Tor'' until 1784. While it did not actually belong to the raion itself, Sloviansk served as the administrative center of the S ...
covered by a ''"Putin Khuilo!"'' graffiti. The minister's post included his comment with the picture saying:
Russian invasion of Ukraine
The phrase became popular again during the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
. Ukrainian brewer Yuri Zastavny began preparing glass bottles to be used for anti-Russian
Molotov cocktail
A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see '') is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a Fuse (explosives), fuse (typically a glass bottle filled wit ...
s with the English-lettered label "Putin Huylo".
Ukrainian hackers disabled electric vehicle
charging station
A charging station, also known as a charge point, chargepoint, or electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), is a power supply electrical device, device that supplies electrical power for recharging plug-in electric vehicles (including batter ...
s in Russia so that instead of providing a charge, the stations display a scrolling message that includes the phrase.
Gallery
File:Putin khuilo at NSC Olimpiyskiy.webm, The song is performed by a crowd in Olympic Stadium
''Olympic Stadium'' is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games
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in Kyiv before an Okean Elzy
Okean Elzy () is a Ukrainian rock band. It was formed in 1994 in Lviv, Ukraine. It is the most famous and successful Ukrainian music band. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. In April 2007 Okean Elzy received ''Fuzz Maga ...
concert in June 2014.
File:ПТН-ХЛО.JPG, A vanity plate
A vanity plate or personalized plate (United States and Canada); prestige plate, private number plate, cherished plate or personalised registration (United Kingdom); personalised plate (Australia, New Zealand, and United Kingdom) or custom pla ...
"ПТН-ХЛО", an abbreviation of the phrase, on a car in Ukraine, June 2014
File:ПТН ХЛО-label on car - Poland 2014.jpg, alt=Label on car in Poland, A label with disemvoweling on a car in Poland, July 2014
File:Путін - хуйло.png, Musical notation template for the song
File:Anti-Putin graffiti in Luhansk, April 2014.jpg, An inscription on garages in Luhansk: ''Luhansk is Ukraine, and Putin - huylo!'' April 2014
File:Rosseti elektrotransport.jpg, On a hacked EV recharge station in Russia, , 28 February 2022
See also
*
O1G, a similar slogan targeting
Viktor Orbán
Viktor Mihály Orbán (; born 31 May 1963) is a Hungarian lawyer and politician who has been the 56th prime minister of Hungary since 2010, previously holding the office from 1998 to 2002. He has also led the Fidesz political party since 200 ...
*
Serzhik, go away!, a similar slogan targeting
Serzh Sargsyan
Serzh Azati Sargsyan (, ; born 30 June 1954)[Official biography of Serzh Sargsyan](_blank)
*
Let's Go Brandon
"Let's Go Brandon" is a List of political slogans, political slogan and Internet meme used as a euphemism for the phrase "Fuck Joe Biden" in reference to former U.S. President (government title), President Joe Biden.
Chants of "Fuck Joe Biden" ...
, a political euphemism for "fuck
Joe Biden
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"
*
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
*
Putler
*
Grandpa in his bunker
*
Hang noodles on the ears
* ''
Khuy Voyne!'' ("fuck war!"), a phrase used to protest the
Iraq War
The Iraq War (), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with 2003 invasion of Iraq, the invasion by a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition, which ...
and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Notes
References
Further reading
* ''Christian Diemer''. Mutterlandpop. Lokale Markierung und Entgrenzung musikalischer. Darbietungen auf ukrainischen Feiertagen // Speaking in Tongues: Pop lokal global / Dietrich Helms,
Thomas Phleps. — Transcript Verlag, 2015. — PP. 78–80. — 219 p. — (Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, Vol. 42). — . — .
** ''Frédéric Döhl, Klaus Nathaus''. Annäherungen an einen flüchtigen Gegenstand. Neue Literatur zur Geschichte der Musik aus Journalistik, Historiographie und Musikwissenschaft // Neue Politische Literatur. — 2017. — Bd. 62, Nr. 3. — S. 491.
* ''Taras Kuzio''. Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism. — ABC-CLIO, 2015. — С. 112. — 641 с. — (Praeger Security International). — . — .
* ''Oksana Havryliv''. Verbale Aggression: das Spektrum der Funktionen // Linguistik Online. — 2017. — 25 Aprils (Bd. 82, H. 3). — S. 27–47. — ISSN 1615-3014. — DOI:10.13092/lo.82.3713.
External links
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Propaganda in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Political pejoratives for people
Association football songs and chants
Ukrainian songs
2014 songs
Cultural depictions of Vladimir Putin
2014 in Ukraine
Opposition to Vladimir Putin
Russian profanity
Articles containing video clips
Ukrainian political phrases
Russian political phrases
Protest songs
Works about Vladimir Putin
2014 quotations
Ukrainian responses to the Russo-Ukrainian War
Internet memes
Internet memes introduced in 2014
Songs about Vladimir Putin