Self-Victimization
Russia’s War against Ukraine in the Exile Media
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
How exile media outlets such as Dozhd', Populiarnaia Politika, or Zhivoi Gvozd' report Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine today will impact how the war is remembered collectively by Russians and Ukrainians tomorrow. Although the exile media condemns the war, their daily journalistic work hardly addresses the experience of Ukrainian victims. News from Russia takes centre stage. This approach reduces empathy for Ukrainians as the actual victims of the war and encourages a perception among audiences within Russia and in exile that they are themselves victims of the war. Meduza and DOXA show that there is another way.
(Osteuropa 5-6/2023, pp. 103–101)