While the Crimean “speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov continues his tragicomic fight against “racially inferior English letters” on the signs of Crimean villages, a different, but also surreal plot is developing in occupied Sevastopol regarding the “enemy alphabet”.
The fact is that back in 2019, at the end of the “governorship” of the current British citizen and London “sanctions prisoner” Dmitry Ovsyannikov, the Sevastopol “authorities” introduced “address signs of a single model”, on the mass installation of which some people made a good profit.
And those signs, in addition to the main inscription in Russian, also had its English translation, such as “Gagarin Avenue”. And now the new authorities have apparently decided to “strengthen the bonds” and “adopted a new standard”, according to which “address signs will be installed on which the inscriptions in Latin should not be translated, but transliterated”.
However, the executors of this “fateful idea” of gauleiter Razvozhaev from the “department of architecture” themselves additionally amused the population in the “transliteration”, indicating that “street” (“ulitsa”) should be written from Russian as “ulica”, which is read more like “ulika” (“clue”), and “avenue” as “prospekt”, which is also incorrect, if we consider the consumer of such an original sign to be English-speaking.
Commenting on this “comedy of signs”, Sevastopol residents came to the conclusion that the speech is primarily about the banal use of funds for a couple of thousand signs, and even outspoken collaborators regarding the “ideological background” of this “fight against Anglicisms” state that “all that remains is to repaint the posts and fences in the colors of the Russian flag, and ban listening to music in English in public places.”
You can also read the citisens’ “optimistic” comment, that with the current state of affairs in the occupied city, all these “transliterations” are a deliberate fake, since “the English and all sorts of Germans and Swedes will not come to us for at least fifty years.”
