Russia and the Media

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<p>President Vladimir Putin is a figure of both fear and fascination in the Western imagination. In the minds of media pundits and commentators, he personifies Russia itself - a country riven with contradictions, enthralling and yet always a threat to world peace.</p><p>But recent propaganda images that define public debate around growing tensions with Russia are not new or arbitrary.<em>Russia and the Media</em> asks, what is the role of Western journalism in constructing a new kind of Cold War with Russia? Focusing on British and US media coverage of moments of crisis and of co-operation between the West and Russia, McLaughlin exposes how such a Cold War framework shapes public perceptions of a major, hostile power reasserting itself on the world stage.</p><p>Scrutinising events such as the Ukraine/Crimea crisis, the Skripal Poisoning and Russia's military intervention in Syria - as well as analysing media coverage of the 2018 Russian presidential election and build up to the 2018 World Cup - Russia and the Media makes a landmark intervention at the intersection of media studies and international relations.</p>

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<p><strong>Greg McLaughlin</strong> is an Associate of the Centre for Media Research at Ulster University. He is the author of<em>The War Correspondent</em> (Pluto, 2nd edition; 2016), and co-author with Stephen Baker of<em>The Propaganda of Peace: The Role of Media and Culture in the Northern Ireland Peace Process</em> (2010) and<em>The British Media and Bloody Sunday</em> (2015).</p>

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