Russian Media Is Focused More on NATO Than Ukraine This Time
- Data show Ukraine coverage less hostile if NATO factored in
- Messaging may show focus is still diplomacy: analysis firm
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
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With international tensions high over the Kremlin’s massing of troops toward its border with Ukraine, there’s an important difference from the way Russian media treated a similar build-up last year: Moscow’s main focus now is NATO, rather than Kyiv.
The conclusion comes from a new data analysis of articles in “.ru” Internet domain names by Semantic Visions, a Prague-based data analytics company that offers risk assessment to corporations.