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The dangerous Russian other in Ukrainian conspiratorial discourse: Media representations of the Odessa tragedy
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This chapter analyzes an anti-Russian conspiratorial discourse within the Ukrainian public sphere in the aftermath of the Euromaidan revolution of 2014. Because it ended with a change of government in Ukraine, the Maidan transformation has provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories of various sorts. However, in contrast to Russian propagandistic constructions, which presented the Maidan as a coup d’etat staged by the West and committed by local neo-Fascists, Ukrainian conspiratorial discourses have not become a popular subject of analysis in academic research. With the aim of contributing to this research area, this chapter discusses how Ukrainian politicians exploit conspiracy theories to incite public fears and shift attention from the internal dimensions of Ukrainian problems to external ones. The case study discussed is the Odessa tragedy that happened on May 2, 2014, when 48 people died as a result of street clashes between two groups of Ukrainians, the opponents and proponents of the Maidan revolution. Using framing analysis, the chapter investigates the coverage of the tragedy by the news programs of three national television networks and Ukraine’s five most popular news websites on May 3 and 4, the two days immediately after the tragedy.
Попов Д. И., Балтийский регион 2025 Т. 17 № 4 С. 68–83
The study examines the image of Russia in Finland’s historical policy in the context of the country’s accession to NATO. The aim is to identify shifts in the interpretation of Russia’s role in the Finnish political elite’s understanding of its own past, shared Russian–Finnish and global history. To this end, the analysis focuses on President ...
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Royce D. P., Russian Politics 2025 Vol. 10 No. 2 P. 241–273
This article, partly on the basis of previously-unconsidered primary sources and contemporary reporting, reexamines the conspiracy theory that developed regarding the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. It concludes, first, that the Russian government had net-negative incentive to carry out the conspiracy of which it is accused. Second, had the alleged conspiracy nevertheless been undertaken, it would ...
Added: October 16, 2025
Radina N., Balakina Y. V., Bannikov K., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2025 № 510 С. 52–62
The timeliness of the presented research is justified by the significant role of the media during a crisis, since the growth of content consumption increases the ability to influence the audience in order to form certain attitudes and change behavioral patterns. In addition, despite the fact that issues of media framing as one of the ...
Added: May 8, 2025
Pavel V. Volkov, Olga A. Baysha, Changing Societies and Personalities 2024 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 651–664
This paper discusses the case of exile journalists from Ukraine who moved to Russia between 2014 and 2022. What, in terms of journalistic norms, was unacceptable to them in the Ukrainian journalistic field? What did they find problematic in this respect in Russia? These were the basic questions driving the research, in the course of ...
Added: October 22, 2024
Kashin V., Россия в глобальной политике 2023 Т. 21 № 3(121) С. 10–21
Российская специальная военная операция на Украине, первое крупное вооружённое столкновение между государствами в XXI веке, стала результатом реализации долгосрочных планов великих держав, прежде всего – Соединённых Штатов и России. Украинский конфликт – их схватка на территории Украины, а для США – и посредством Украины. ...
Added: September 30, 2024
Batyuk V., Россия и Америка в XXI веке 2023 № 2 Статья 2
The conflict in Ukraine has allowed the United States to strengthen its international position, and above all in relations with its allies. The Americans have managed to deal a severe blow to the political and economic ties between Russia and Europe. While Russia is suffering huge losses and casualties due to its participation in the ...
Added: March 15, 2024
Анна Разувалова, Антропологический форум 2015 № 27 С. 95–121
This article focuses on the film director Nikolay Burlyaev’s handling of the plot “death of a poet” presented, on the one hand, in his film Lermontov (1986) and on the other hand, in his Filmmaker’s Diary. The author traces the director’s apprehension of conspiracy schemes as a way to explain why part of the cinematographic ...
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Razuvalova A., , in: “Truth” and Fiction: Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and LiteratureIssue 193: Culture & Theory.: Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020. P. 145–168.
Added: March 15, 2024
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020.
Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well the ...
Added: March 15, 2024
Trenin D., Globalbridge 2023
Während in der EU die Diskussion fast nur noch darum geht, welche Waffen und welche Munition und aus welchem Land in die Ukraine geliefert werden sollen, gibt es nicht zuletzt auf russischer Seite auch Politologen und Wirtschaftsexperten, die sich um die Zukunft von Russland im Innern und speziell auch um die künftige russische Außenpolitik Gedanken ...
Added: November 16, 2023
Baysha O., , in: Russiagate Revisited: The Aftermath of a Hoax.: NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. P. 225–247.
As is evident from statistical data, a worldwide collapse of positive attitudes toward Russia occurred in 2014—the year Russia annexed Crimea and supported rebels in eastern Ukraine who allegedly shot down the passenger plane MH17 using the Russian Buk missile system. As this chapter argues, an understanding of what happened in Ukraine in 2013–14 and ...
Added: July 31, 2023
Baysha O., NY: Routledge, 2023.
This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine—with his division of the world into "civilized us" versus "barbarian them"—the book argues ...
Added: July 18, 2023
Zakharov A., Рабей С. Л., Восточная аналитика 2023 № 2 С. 61–73
The article examines the Indian approach to the Ukrainian crisis a year after the start of the active phase of the military actions. The authors consider new aspects of the strategic dialogue between Russia and India, analyze the Indian position in voting at the United Nations level, study expert discussions, assess the impact of the ...
Added: June 30, 2023
Wien: Promedia Verlag, 2023.
The blue and yellow flag stands for freedom, the ominous Russian symbol "Z" for oppression. The war in Ukraine is not so easy to explain, although only this one story has become established among European state chancellery and leading media. The volume "Consequences of War" wants to go beyond propaganda and examine the motives and ...
Added: March 28, 2023
Irina Dushakova, Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies 2022 Vol. 5 No. 1 P. 56–78
The article discusses the ways the personality of Joseph Stalin was framed in the Russian media from February 2011 o February 2021. The data corpus was collected from the “Medialogia” media database using keyword searches. As a result of the framing analysis of the relevant media messages, four dominant types of Stalin’s personality framing were ...
Added: January 10, 2023
Sawyer P., Center for Analysis of the Radical Right 2021
On January 6th, hundreds of Stop the Steal protesters, who believe in the Big Lie that the election was “stolen” due to massive voter fraud, led an insurrection on the US Capitol building, seeking to do harm to US lawmakers and overturn the November 2020 election results. A lesser known, yet just as harmful, event ...
Added: December 16, 2021
Dushakova I., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 6 С. 30–52
The article is focused on the framing of the results of opinion polls in contemporary Russian media as not trustworthy, as well as on the distribution of roles in media messages between survey companies and the media as between two framing machines. The study is based on the frame analysis of media messages using the ...
Added: October 22, 2021
Dushakova I., Шаги/Steps 2021 Т. 7 № 1 С. 83–98
The article examines how information about the period of Stalin's rule is presented in
the contemporary Russian media, as well as what role his figure plays in the media
representation of the era of his rule. The corpus is collected based on the request in “Medialogia”
database with two keywords: Stalin and Stalinism. Proceeding from the position that ...
Added: October 20, 2021
Sawyer P., International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society 2021 P. 1–36
As evidenced by the 2016 US presidential election, conspiracy theories, such as birtherism, the belief that Barack Obama is not a natural-born citizen, have become more impactful on modern-day liberal democracies. This study investigates the consequences of the conspiratorial narratives espoused by populist candidates, arguing that the creation of a narrative involving a “conspiring” establishment ...
Added: February 18, 2021