Putin’s rhetoric and political aims, part 2 with Russian scholar Maria Ananyeva

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While Biden’s recent speech in Poland was concise and relied a lot on the simplistic rhetoric western leaders typically put forward, in Putin’s February 21 address to the nation he spoke for 2 hours and gave data, references, put forward military and economic plans, including a short intervention about LGBTQ issues. The speech was followed by a gesture towards “free speech”, a concession to those he would usually blacklist as foreign agents.
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. How do these contrasting types of speeches operate and leverage “democratic” versus conservative and other values? What myths do they operate on– especially with regards to the assessment of Ukrainian nationalism presented? In this second installation we also discuss the media landscape in Romania– who owns and who controls, for what purposes, how– and in terms of the representation of women and minorities. How does this last part compare in Russia?