Nationalization of Odnoklassniki
Classmates in Digital Authoritarianism
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The Russian social network Odnoklassniki shows how the Putin regime has increasingly come to see social media as part of its authoritarian media strategy. Originally launched as an independent and private company, the platform is now in state hands and is being instrumentalised – for propaganda and war purposes, as well as for influencing the federal elections in Germany. Odnoklassniki is a biotope of “digital authoritarianism”.
(Osteuropa 1-3/2025, pp. 433–442)