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Are We Brothers? Pseudo-peaceful Discourse in Russian Media Manipulation

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This chapter is aimed at highlighting the analysis of pseudo-peaceful Russian propaganda relating to the hybrid Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas. The data included into this research was taken from the program We Need to Talk! (Rus.: “Nado pohovorit!”) broadcasted on the television channel Russia-1 in 2019. This program was chosen due to the way it represents what was called “friendly” and “peaceful” discourse, as portrayed in the Russian media.

This article is a revised version of the previously published work in Ukrainian: Pidkuimukha, Liudmyla (2021): My ž odyn narod, abo do pytannja “myrnoji” propahandy v rosijs’komu mediaprostori [We are One Nation: to the Question of “Peaceful” Propaganda in the Russian Media Space]. In: XI. Internationale virtuelle Konferenz der Ukrainistik “Dialog der Sprachen Dialog der Kulturen. Die Ukraine aus globaler Sicht.” Bd. 2020. Herausgegeben von Olena Novikova und Ulrich Schweier. Verlag readbox unipress Open Access LMU, München, 2021. pp. 139–148.

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Notes

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    Viktor Janukovych is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he fled to Russia in 2014 during the Euromaidan or Revolution of Dignity.

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    Arkadij Inin – Russian writer and screenwriter. Honored Artist of Russia (1989). In September 2015, he was included in the List of Persons Threatening the National Security of Ukraine.

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    Margarita Šubina is a Soviet and Russian actress and director. Honored Artist of Russia (2009).

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Pidkuimukha, L. (2023). Are We Brothers? Pseudo-peaceful Discourse in Russian Media Manipulation. In: Salamurović, A. (eds) Konzepte der NATION im europäischen Kontext im 21. Jahrhundert. Linguistik in Empirie und Theorie/Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics(). J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66332-5_8

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