How does Russia’s internal propaganda work? part 2 w/ Maria Ananyeva

“On the Barricades” s05e20

On this second episode of this week’s release of “On the Barricades,” hosts Maria Cernat and Boyan Stanislavski continue on the question of the Russian bureaucracy’s domestic propaganda campaign with a Russian academic and analyst, Maria Ananyeva. Maria studies literature and political science, in particular how discourse works to manipulate certain agendas like the current war.

The Russian establishment doesn’t have a comparable ability to project and exercise propaganda outside of Russia, compared to the pro-NATO side. Inside the country, however, the Kremlin manages to effectively persuade the population to support the war efforts, at least til now. Maria takes us through the soft power mechanisms she observes there– what facts and distortions about the international situation they’re based on, and how they manipulate– in comparison to the Western style.