... can we do but to welcome it? Certainly, we welcome it.”
Putin also referred to Trump as “the absolute leader of the presidential race.”
When pushed on his compliments on Trump, Putin slyly doubled down and reiterated them.
Russian Press on Trump
But it’s not just Putin saying nice things about Trump: Putin’s massive media propaganda machine now seems to have swung solidly behind Trump and his candidacy as well, lavishing praise on him across the board while it clearly does not favor Clinton and demonizes her.
Putin’s choice in 2016 is clear: he dislikes Clinton ...
... offering wisdom on the coming election. People like Aleksey Pushkov, head of the Lower House Committee for Foreign Relations, and Fyodor Lukyanov, head of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, while admitting their understanding of the immediate Russian attraction of Donald over Hillary, also emphasize how the ‘system’ of Washington politics tends to bring any incoming President quickly to heel and that it is impossible to truly know what to expect from a Trump presidency. I think ...
... curse of soft power”. The results of “The Soft Power 30” can be useful for Russians to remind how it is important to pay attention to this issue. It would be really sad if after all the efforts to develop high quality international media, Russia will end up the same way as China. For a few years China constantly struggles with discourse of its charm offensive and discussions on its $10 billion budget for overseas propaganda deals.
We should always remember about limitations of soft ...
... to that of being its hostage. They find it extremely challenging to change their message, and have to adapt it to the existing coral reef, especially considering that this “reef” has a very long history.
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Pavel Sharikov:
Enemy.media: The Creation of Enemy Image
in Russian-American Relations
It is striking to see how relative information flows are is perceived in a similar fashion. In fact, both Russia and the Western countries, let alone Ukraine, view themselves as victims of information warfare. Each party insists ...
... in 2013-2014.
Given that the West and Russia repeatedly point fingers at each other and accuse each other of using media for propaganda purposes, the OSCE report is very relevant. As a result, the report generated its fair share of publicity in
some Russian media in February
.
In today’s highly charged geopolitical environment, “propaganda” has become a sort of a buzzword among academics, experts and media professionals. On Feb. 24, experts, officials and journalists discussed this problem once again ...
... doing their best to depict Russian President Vladimir Putin as the personification of evil. It should suffice to recall the
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of major American and European magazines over the past 18 months, depicting Putin as devilish and authoritarian. The Russian media also publishes countless articles accusatory toward the U.S.A., which are low in analysis but high in vitriol, and depict the West as the sole culprit responsible for all Russia's ills, a blatant exaggeration.
The main focus is of course the Ukraine ...
... externally. Today, this tendency is negative, as Russia is weakening not strengthening. One can't use 19th-century rules for life in the 21st century, but Russia is trying to do just that.
What issues and subjects are hushed up or poorly covered by Russian media?
There is no discussion of the fallout of the Russia-Ukraine affair, the accumulation of socio-emotional problems between the two countries, and reciprocal perceptions of Russians and Ukrainians. Polls both in Russia and Ukraine say that only 15 ...
... Regions”
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illustrates this perfectly well. The law was passed at a record speed and contains the following provisions:
Emphasize investigative and analytical journalism to highlight inconsistencies and misinformation provided by Russian or pro-Russian media outlets;
Increase the number of reporters and organizational presence in eastern Ukraine, especially in Crimea;
Prioritize programming to areas where access to uncensored sources of information is limited or non-existent, especially populations ...
Media outlets and government circles both cringe and squirm when the subject of Westerners leaving the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the Islamic State arises. While acquiring data and calculating accurate numbers wildly diverges from source ...
... disclose whether or not that enemy objective was successful but they were certain that the drone was not American, Chinese, or Russian: IDF claimed it to be an Iranian drone assembled in Lebanon and flown by Hezbollah. I have loosely called this in the ... ... develop drones domestically. It is also unwise to forget the natural cascade effects that come from such statements. Almost immediately upon these so-called ‘achievements’ both Egypt and Saudi Arabia became far more interested in acquiring ...
