Krimkrisen med ryska ögon
Journal: Lund University Publications Student Papers (Lund University)
Year: 2017

This paper examines media’s role in Russian hybrid warfare by using the Ukraine crisis as a case study. The purpose is to investigate how Russia Today has supported hybrid warfare by attempting to create legitimacy for Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The theory underpinning this work is the theory of framing, developed by Robert Entman. The principles of framing theory have been operationalized in accordance with qualitative content analysis in order to be applied to the empirical material, which