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Nationalism in the Russian media: content analysis of newspaper coverage surrounding conflict in Stavropol, 24 May–7 June 2007

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Caress Schenk
Caress Schenk*
Affiliation:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbaev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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Abstract

This paper considers the role of Russian print media and government in forming and publicizing nationalist sentiment through a content analysis of newspaper coverage of ethnic conflict in Stavropol in 2007. It shows that though the government officially pursues an inclusive multicultural approach (which I call associative nationalism), newspapers owned by Kremlin-loyal business holdings printed quite nationalist and sensationalist versions of the events in question. I argue that this is a passive promotion of a dissociative type of nationalism on the part of the Kremlin, which works against its stated purposes of bringing together all those in the Russian territory into a united national identity.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 40 , Issue 5 , September 2012 , pp. 783 - 805
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Copyright © 2012 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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