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refusnik en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of refusenik.
   alt of refusenik
   • Janis Goldstein, 38, a Jewish activist from Jackson, Miss., also spoke before the Temple Beth-El audience, telling of her separate trip to Riga, Leningrad and Moscow to visit refusniki, or those who have attempted to leave but have been refused permission. 1985 September 23, Mike Bennighof, “Congressman’s journey included smuggling, too”, in Birmingham Post-Herald, volume 119, number 168, Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A7, column 4:
   • The structures of power in Montenegro treated these Montenegrin refusniki as not only traitors and enemies of the state, but also as individuals who were not worthy of calling themselves Montenegrin. 2005 April, Srdja Pavlovic, “Reckoning: The 1991 Siege of Dubrovnik and the Consequences of the ‘War for Peace’”, in spacesofidentity.net, volume 5, number 1 (War Crimes), Edmonton, Alta.: Canadian Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2015, page 76:
   • Among the reported abuses of human rights provisions were these: […] Jews had been refused permission to emigrate for unstated reasons, and many such refusniki – a sad new term in the Russian^([sic]) language – had been dismissed from their jobs, thus being reduced to poverty; […] 1978, Egon Larsen, “Human Rights and Power Politics”, in A Flame in Barbed Wire: The Story of Amnesty International, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1979, →ISBN, page 140:
   • Sean Dobson was bombarded with questions about life in America but was never able to explain our bizarre culture. He met many types: the black marketeers, but also the brave refusniki. He found Moscow grey and depressing, but old Leningrad still charming, despite its disrepair. 1985, The American Bulletin, numbers 333–361, Cicero, Ill.: Czechoslovak National Council of America, →ISSN, →OCLC:

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