Media Image of Vladimir Putin and Matteo Renzi in the Context of Relationships Between Russia and “The Group of Seven”(Case Study of Internet Version of Newspapers “Vedomosti” and "Corriere della Sera")

The theme of the bachelor thesis is the media image of Matteo Renzi and Vladimir Putin in Russian and Italian media. The goal of the research was to examine the interference of politics and media, researched the cooperation models (politics-media) in different countries and investigated the basic principles of the media image creation. The research is out of scope of journalism. There is a significant part of political communication and marketing, studies of public opinion. In Scope of this research we tried to establish the interaction of the political policy in mentioned countries and agenda in media. Besides, we scrutinized the methods and techniques of media image production of Russian and Italian political leaders. We were strongly interested to compare Russian media and political practice with European experience in these fields.