Yanukisms () is a Ukrainian colloquial term for various linguistic blunders and mistakes made by former President

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of t ...

, who put up a façade of a well-educated man but frequently embarrassed himself with misspellings and other mistakes. One of the best known examples of a Yanukism is ''proffesor'', which got started as Yanukovych misspelled the academic title in his registration form during the 2004 presidential election. It became an

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and a nickname of Yanukovych. In the same form, Yanukovych made in total 12 different mistakes: he misspelled the names of his wife and his hometown. In addition, Yanukovych has made so many other mistakes that his doctor's degree in economics has been called into question. Also, the fact that Yanukovych was among the best-selling authors of Ukraine in the early 2010s raised questions about the true author of his books due to all his past mistakes. Yanukisms can also be manifested by factual mistakes instead of misspellings or other mistakes language-wise. Yanukovych has said among other things that

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is located in

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(actually in

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), called the

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'a World Championship' and said that

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is a European country.

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