Academic Scientific JournalsDynamics of aggressive discourse on Ukraine and the West in the Russian pro-government media in 2000-2022
Keywords:
Propaganda, Sentence Embedding, BERT, Content Analysis, Cluster AnalysisAbstract
The aim of this research is a build of a tool that helps to detect latent meanings of Russian propaganda messages. For this purpose, a new approach to building timeaware sentence embeddings was created, using the logic of the word2vec word embeddings model. An array of articles (754,372) from more than 50 Russian news websites for the years 2000–2022 was analyzed. In the dynamics of aggressive discourse towards the West and Ukraine, the key year is 2014 - the year of the beginning of the aggression against Ukraine. But at the same time, Russian propaganda positions it as a struggle for influence with the West, and this perfectly demonstrates the synchronicity of anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
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