The Framing of Protests in Government-controlled Media in Russia

Student: Rakov Georgii

Educational Programme: Applied Politics (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This work examines the coverage of mass protests in Russian government-controlled media. Author looks at three waves of protests in Moscow—the movement «For Fair Elections» of 2011–2012, anti-corruption meetings after the FBK's «On vam ne Dimon» investigation of 2017 and rallies related to the situation with the 2019 Moscow City Duma elections—and studies how «Channel One Russia» and «Rossiyskaya Gazeta» frame protest activity. For these purposes, content analysis is used within the framework of «Protest Paradigm», as well as classic framing analysis. Together, these methods help to see how government-controlled media in Russia problematize protests: what attributes are ascribed to rallies, how do they explain the reasons, what do they say about the participants and their motives, how are the authorities represented.

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