The inside-Russia media landscape, part 1 with Maria Ananyeva

“On the Barricades” s06e31
For most of us, Russia is a blackbox and we have little understanding of the internal dynamics, hearing only what the western media says. At dozens or hundreds of conferences and talk shows, there is discussion of Russia without Russians. On this week’s release of “On the Barricades”, Russian analyst and academic Maria Ananyeva is back on the show to discuss, with host Maria Cernat, the workings of Russian propaganda and its interaction with society. In this first release we discuss the media landscape in Russia in general– in contrast to the western model we are familiar with– in terms of sponsorship interests and what diversity of media Russians consume.
Maria studies literature and political science, in particular how discourse works to manipulate certain agendas like the current war.