{"id":3660,"date":"2011-07-20T16:04:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/idblog\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2011-12-16T12:07:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:07:01","slug":"russian-media-for-the-week-of-6202011-%e2%80%93-6262011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/idblog\/2011\/07\/20\/russian-media-for-the-week-of-6202011-%e2%80%93-6262011\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Media for the Week of 6\/20\/2011 \u2013 6\/26\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian media this week has been dominated by several new themes, relating to national history, disasters, and high politics.\u00a0 The red words in the word cloud below indicate words that appeared in this week\u2019s news with unusually high frequency, showing a contrast with the previous week. \u00a0(Blue words show high frequency words unique to the previous week, and purple indicates words that appeared with significant prevalence both weeks \u2013 generally representative of recurrent themes.)<\/p>\n

Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Five Major Russian Media Segments (TV, Pop Blogs, Random Blogs, Mainstream Media, Government):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nAs is clear from this week\u2019s overall comparative word cloud across five major media segments, one of the dominant themes in the week\u2019s media has been the 70th<\/sup> anniversary of the German invasion of Russia that marked the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (World War II).\u00a0 The German invasion of the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) began on June 22nd<\/sup> 1941 when Nazi tanks entered Soviet territory near the town of Brest in Belarus.\u00a0 It was the beginning of four years of war in which over 20 million Soviet soldiers and civilians would perish (over 13% of the population). \u00a0The anniversary, referred to as a national \u201cDay of Memory and Sorrow,\u201d was somberly recalled in memorial events across Russia this week.\u00a0 The unusually high occurrence of various forms of words such as \u201c\u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u0430\u201d (war), \u201c\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0431\u0430\u201d (service), \u201c\u0432\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0439\u201d (great [patriotic war]), and \u201c\u0432\u043e\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439\u201d (military) indicates the frequency with which the war and its legacy were discussed across the five media segments over the course of this week. \u00a0Some variants of one or more of these words appear clearly in the week\u2019s word clouds for both Mainstream Media and Television, indicating that the story had particular prominence across these segments.\u00a0 In popular blogs, we also see higher than usual discussion involving words such as \u201c\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439\u201d (Soviet), often involving discussion of Soviet history and the legacy of the war.<\/p>\n

One of the other major stories of the week was the June 20th<\/sup> crash of a passenger airplane (a Tupolev 134A-3) en route from Moscow to Petrozavodsk.\u00a0 Flight RA-65691 of the airline RusAir (\u0420\u0443\u0441\u044d\u0439\u0440) crashed and broke apart on landing, killing forty-seven out of fifty-two occupants.\u00a0 This story is clearly indicated by prominent words in the week\u2019s word cloud, such as \u201c\u0441\u0430\u043c\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0442\u201d (airplane) and \u201c\u043f\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0430\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0441\u043a\u201d (Petrozavodsk).\u00a0 One or both of these words appear in the week\u2019s word clouds for both the Mainstream Media and TV. \u00a0The story apparently also received some prominent attention in the Government press, with \u201c\u043c\u0447\u0441\u201d (acronym for the Russian Emergencies Ministry) appearing as one of the week\u2019s highest frequency words for that news segment. \u00a0This theme seems to have been particularly picked up in Russian television, with additional words such as \u201c\u0430\u0432\u0438\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0435\u201d (aviation accident), \u201c\u0431\u043e\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u0446\u044b\u201d (hospitals), \u201c\u043f\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0431\u0448\u0438\u0445\u201d (dead\/deceased), \u201c\u0430\u044d\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u201d (airport), \u201c\u043f\u0430\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0436\u0438\u0440\u201d (passenger), \u201c\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u201d (transportation), and \u201c\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0440\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0444\u044b\u201d (transportation accident) featuring as unusually high frequency words visible in the segment-specific weekly word clouds.<\/p>\n

A third significant set of stories of this week had to do with the appointments and nominations of officials for government positions.\u00a0 Specifically, this included President Medvedev\u2019s appointment of officials to fill leadership positions in the Ministry of the Interior (\u041c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u0412\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0438\u0445 \u0434\u0435\u043b \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438), the President\u2019s apparent support for Saint Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko\u2019s nomination as the new Speaker of Russia\u2019s Federation Council (\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442 \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438), and the reappointment of Yuri Chaika as Prosecutor General (\u0413\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u041f\u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443\u0440\u043e\u0440) by the Federation Council.\u00a0 These stories are indicated by the prevalence of words such as \u201c\u043c\u0438\u043d\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0430\u201d (ministry), \u201c\u0432\u043d\u0443\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u043d\u0438\u0445\u201d (internal), \u201c\u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u201d (council), \u201c\u0444\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438\u201d ([of the] federation), and \u201c\u0433\u0435\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u201d (general).\u00a0 The coverage of these news events appears to have been particularly strong, not surprisingly, across the Government media segment, though they also have received some attention in TV, Mainstream Media, and Popular Blogs.<\/p>\n

Below are the week\u2019s comparative word clouds from each of the five media segments (TV, mainstream media, government, popular blogs, and a random sample of all blogs).\u00a0 Click on these figures to view interactive word clouds from which to explore themes of interest.<\/p>\n

Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Russian TV:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Russian Mainstream Media:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Russian Government:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Russian Popular Blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Week of June 20 \u2013 June 26 (Red) Compared to June 13 \u2013 June 19 (Blue) for Russian Random \u00a0Blogs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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