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Bookmark or Share- Gopnik - WikipediaA gopnik (Russian: гопник, romanized: gopnik, pronounced [ˈɡopnʲɪk]; Ukrainian: гопник, romanized: hopnyk; Belarusian: гопнік, romanized: hopnik) [1] is a member of a delinquent subculture in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and in other former Soviet republics—a young man (or a woman, a gopnitsa) of working-class background ...
- Criminals or just misunderstood: Who are Russia’s ‘gopniks’?As a rule, poorly educated young people without any special interests or prospects in life become “gopniks.” One of their favorite pastimes is to find victims in the evening or at night and, by...
- Thugs, Rednecks, Nationalists: Understanding Russia's Gopnik ...Гопник: intolerant, insular thug. Insulting slang words seem to go in and out of fashion — or maybe I go in and out of periods of noticing them. Lately it seems that the word гопник and its...
- 6 superpowers of the Russian gopnik - Russia BeyondGopniks, aka Russian chavs, are a dying breed. The half-criminal subculture born out of poverty, poor education, and absence of culture has fallen prey to the internet revolution that’s...
- A Point of View: The curse of a ridiculous name - BBC NewsA gopnik in Russian, and in Russia, is now a drunken hooligan, a small-time lout, a criminal without even the sinister glamour of courage.
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