Portraying War Together: Agenda-Setting among Russian Deputies during the Invasion of Ukraine

• In Event: Russia-Ukraine and the Media

Brief Overview

The study applies text-as-data methods to analyze public rhetoric of Russian deputies during the war in Ukraine. We aim to find agenda-setters among MPs, disentangle the overarching narratives and coherence of the elite rhetoric in an autocracy.

Authors

• Nikita Khokhlov, Dublin City University

• Mikhail Belov, University of California-Los Angeles

• Daniil Romanov, University of Oxford