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Journalist Fellows' Papers

Human wrongs: How state-backed media helped the Kremlin weaponise social conservatism

Paper by Journalist Fellow

Russians themselves are the biggest victims of their government’s propaganda and misinformation campaigns. Journalist fellow Daria Litvinova looks at the history of Russian propaganda and writes a deeply personal account of how her country’s media has struggled to deal with Vladimir Putin and his narrative of Russian values under attack from the West.

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Meet the authors

Daria Litvinova

Daria Litvinova is a Moscow-based journalist who has been covering Russian domestic and foreign affairs, social and legal issues, human rights, culture and sports for both Russian and international audiences for the past 10 years. Litvinova studied... Read more about Daria Litvinova