Digital spaces of war: Genre and affective investments in RT’s representations of the Syrian conflict
Journal: Bloomsbury Academic eBooks
Year: 2020

Casula, 2015). Indeed, through a combination of 'three years of nonstop bombing' (Frolovskiy, 2019) and diplomatic summits, Russia has emerged as a key powerbroker in the Middle East, claiming that it has achieved what the 'West' could not -establishing the pathway to peace in Syria (Ellis-Petersen and Roth, 2018).Such a pathway has been paved with civilian casualties, with some sources estimating that Russia has killed over 8100 Syrian civilians, including almost 2000 children (SOHR, 2019).Russ