WHY ARE RUSSIANS NOT AFRAID OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS? PRINT MEDIA COUNTER-RHETORIC STRATEGIES
Journal: Monitoring obŝestvennogo mneniâ: èkonomičeskie i socialʹnye peremeny
Year: 2016

The article analyzes the key strategies of deproblematization of the economic sanctions and Russian food embargo used by four Russian print publications such as Rossiyskaya Gazeta (pro-governmental newspaper, 945 articles), Novaya Gazeta (oppositional newspaper, 396 articles), Argumenty i Fakty (popular newspaper, 258 articles) and Kommersant (business newspaper, 1574 articles) from March 2014 to December 2014. The discourse of these media sources are considered in terms of ideological stance (l