Sherstoboeva, Elena (2024) Russian Bans on 'Fake News' about the War in Ukraine: Conditional Truth and Unconditional Loyalty. The International Communication Gazette, 86 (1). pp. 36-54. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485231220141
Sherstoboeva, Elena (2024) Russian Bans on 'Fake News' about the War in Ukraine: Conditional Truth and Unconditional Loyalty. The International Communication Gazette, 86 (1). pp. 36-54. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485231220141
Sherstoboeva, Elena (2024) Russian Bans on 'Fake News' about the War in Ukraine: Conditional Truth and Unconditional Loyalty. The International Communication Gazette, 86 (1). pp. 36-54. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485231220141
Abstract
This article examines Russia's practice of the ban introduced by the so-called ‘fake news laws’ during the war against Ukraine. It blends doctrinal legal with discourse analysis to study how and why Russian courts have applied the laws, which epistemology of knowledge they have constructed while limiting fake news about the war and what implications this has for freedom of expression and public debate of the war within Russia. The dataset covers 446 Russian court decisions from 2022 to 2023. A historical approach is utilised to discuss the results in connection to the Soviet Communist ideology. The article argues that Russian courts have used the laws to make truth in Russia conditional and loyalty unconditional, actualising the Soviet principles of ‘partyness’, ‘objectivity’ and ‘scientificalness’. It demonstrates how courts construct a mythologised reality about the ‘imaginary’ ‘military operation’ to help the government monopolise the public debate and misrepresent the war against Ukraine within Russia.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | censorship; discourse analysis; disinformation; fake news laws; freedom of expression; legal analysis; media law; Russia; USSR; war in Ukraine |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Essex Law School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2024 17:33 |
Last Modified: | 07 May 2024 15:58 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37832 |
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