Kremlin Media Wars

Censorship and Control Since the Invasion of Ukraine
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-77587-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics

This unique volume brings together academics of Russian journalism and media with journalists and editors who reported or continue to report on the country, to explore and reflect on the changing landscape for journalists in Russia or covering Russia, and the increasing control exerted by the government on independent journalists.

Combining rigorous academic research with reflective practitioner essays, the volume investigates the future of reporting in Russia and the implications for the future of the country. It offers an understanding of the experience of independent journalists and media outlets in Russia, as well as other individuals who experience censorship (academics, activists), and examines how the current situation in Russia and people’s experiences of censorship can inform both our theoretical understandings of censorship and information control, in the context of the twenty-first-century digital technologies and the policymaking both inside and outside of Russia.

Offering important insight into what is happening within Russia’s borders, this volume will appeal to researchers and students of journalism, political science, international relations, propaganda and censorship, mass media, as well as journalists and policymakers.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sloane, Wendy

Raspopina, Aleksandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten: Zensur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Post-Soviet censorship and regulation in Russia

Part I: Understanding censorship and Internet regulation in Russia

2. Criminalizing independent journalism: 20th century controls on the 21st century media.

3. The Russian Media System: From the Soviet model to the ‘special military operation’.

4. The history of Russian media regulation: Strategic communication and information environment transformation from the Kursk submarine disaster to the Crocus City terror attack.

5. Try Instagramming in Russia or the rise of digital authoritarianism.

6. Essay: Wartime Propaganda: Stalin during the Great Patriotic War and Putin’s special operation.

7. Essay: How the Russian liberal media lost an audience of 65 million: A view from inside the information bubble.

Part II: Working under Kremlin censorship

8. Essay: Media in exile: from samizdat to VPN.

9. Tactics of Russia’s independent media during the war in Ukraine.

10. ‘Russian military censorship, like the Russian warship, can go f*** itself’. An analysis of Russian independent media response to wartime media freedom restrictions.

11. Essay: The High Price of Self-Censorship.

12. Wartime Transformation of Novaya Gazeta.

13. Understanding Russian leadership by analysing recent trends in Russian opposition media.

Part III: Censorship beyond politics

14. Essay: Did the Western media misjudge Putin?

15.  Essay: How gender roles are being reinforced in Putin’s brave new patriarchy.

16. Transphobia as a weapon of war: reporting on Russia’s trans community amidst heightened regulation, censorship and propaganda.

17. Public expression in Russian academic institutions in times of war: toward a general logic of control in symbolic institutions.

18. Essay: ‘First Targets’: The overlooked battle for freedom of expression in Ukraine's temporarily occupied territories.

19. Essay: Learning to cover Russia from outside of Russia.

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Sloane is an Associate Professor, Principal Lecturer, and Journalism Course Leader at London Metropolitan University and is currently working on a PhD about censorship and press restrictions in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. She received a BA in Political Science and Russian from Mount Holyoke College and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University’s Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union. She has previously worked for Time Magazine, Moscow Magazine, Associated Press, The Daily Telegraph, and the Christian Science Monitor.

Aleksandra Raspopina is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University and a Researcher interested in Russian post-Soviet journalism, media and politics, misinformation and disinformation, and post-truth. She has previously worked as a journalist for a number of publications, including The Calvert Journal, The Guardian, The Economist, Vice, and CBS News, and worked as a Lecturer in Journalism and Media Research at City, University of London and Middlesex University.