Mar
28
Cranking Up Putin’s Privatized Propaganda Machine
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Never heard of the “Crimean Spring?” That’s probably because you haven’t been watching Russian TV lately.
As troops have occupied Crimea in recent weeks, Russian TV has depicted President Vladimir Putin’s annexation as an awakening that saved the region from being overrun by fascists — part of a propaganda effort rivaling the machine that shaped public opinion a generation ago.
“What’s happening now with state media and especially TV is unprecedented, even for the Soviet era,” said Tatiana Vorozheykina, lead researcher at the Levada Center in Moscow, Russia’s only independent polling company. “These are propaganda instruments and no one hides it.”
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