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First Apology: I am retired clergy, but have assist ministry of clergy when able.

Your question: “When did Russia become Ruzzia?”

ETYMOLOGY
Neologism following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

PUTIN’S OPERATION Z
The invasion has acquired the nickname “Operation Z”.
Since mid-March 2022, the military symbol “Z” began to be used by the Russian government as a pro-war propaganda.
Then, the military symbol “Z” was borrowed by pro-Putin civilians as a symbol of support for Russia’s invasion

Some blend the Russian +‎ Z, using the Russian Z SYMBOL to substitute for S that stand against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
However, the Z symbol is considered a variant of Nazi symbolism as a zwastika or zwaztika, in reference to the Nazi swastika & in Russian and Ukrainian as ‘ziga’ referring to Sieg Heil by those in opposition to the Russian invasion.
Even the Russian language search engine Yandex censored the search results for the Z symbol: not allowing symbols of Nazism to be juxtaposed with it.

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