Under Soviet law, members of ethnic and national minority groups who have relatives in the West are theoretically allowed to emigrate to their “historic homeland.” Soviet Jews make up by far the most prominent group seeking to take advantage of this rule, but ethnic Germans, Armenians and others are also sometimes allowed to leave. This follows a 2013 ban on the use of fenya by prison guards.-Second, to create a network in the West for their agents.
In January 2016, the use of profanity and fenya by prisoners in pretrial detention centers was banned in the Russian prison system. The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the appearance of " New Russians" introduced new changes into fenya, notably assigning new meanings and accents to common words. In particular, a whole subgenre of Russian humour exists, in which a known tale, such as Romeo and Juliet or a popular Russian fairy tale is cast into fenya. Few "common" Russians possess a complete or even complex understanding of fenya and fewer still - for various reasons - will admit to it.įenya influences Russian culture in different ways. Another reason comes from the fact that criminal life was romanticized in popular culture: for example, in the form of " blatnaya song". Particularly, many writers, poets, and journalists who had been arrested began to use fenya in their work after release. For one, a significant part of the population, not necessarily criminals, went through labor camps, and massive indiscriminate amnesties after the death of Joseph Stalin resulted in a penetration of the subculture of convicts into everyday life in the form of a shock wave. During the times of the Soviet Union fenya penetrated into common spoken Russian and can no longer be considered cryptic, although it is still commonly associated with those who have connections to the Russian criminal culture or who have spent a significant amount of time incarcerated.Ī number of explanations for this phenomenon are suggested. The vocabulary changed over time, with notable infusion of words of Yiddish origin. Normative Russian: "Да позабыл тебе сказать: жена твоя померла весною." ( Da pozabyl tebe skazat': zhena tvoya pomerla vesnoyu.) Translation: "Oh, I forgot to tell you: your wife died this spring."Īlso, fenya included usual Russian words in unusual meanings, like шаблон shablon (template) for military or police headwear, педаль pedal' (pedal) for mobile phone (recent addition). Normative Russian: "Пора спать, полночь скоро запоют петухи." ( Pora spat', polnoch skoro zapoyut petukhi.) Translation: "It's time to go to bed, it's midnight, soon the roosters will be crowing." Vladimir Dahl in his Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language gives the following examples: The original fenya consisted of broken Russian words borrowed from Greek and other foreign languages. The grammar of fenya is Russian the vocabulary has changed over time. The god-haulers - "ofenyas engaged in the resale of icons" created a cryptolanguage, inventing new roots and leaving the traditional Russian morphology, and used this invented language to communicate "not for other people's ears". This is a language that was formed in Russia, in the Middle Ages, and was originally used by the ofenyas (traveling merchants). Initially, this was the name of the Ofen language ( Russian: офенский язык, formerly " Suzdal dialect"). It is also widely used in "thieves' songs". In modern Russian language it is also referred to as blatnoy language ( Russian: блатной язык), where "blatnoy" is a slang expression for "professional criminal". JSTOR ( January 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įenya (Russian: феня, IPA: ) or fen'ka (Russian: фенька, IPA: ) is a Russian cant language used among criminals.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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