Russian Propaganda: Manipulating or Manifesting Russians' Views on Ukraine?

What are the dominant narratives about Ukraine in Russian propaganda at home and abroad, and why do these narratives hold sway over so many Russians?
BBC journalist Francis Scarr and Jade McGlynn, author of 'Russia’s War' in conversation with Jaroslava Barbieri of University of Birmingham. 12 April 2023, in partnership with the European Parliament's Liaison Office in the UK.
Speakers
Dr Jade McGlynn is a Leverhulme Research Fellow in the War Studies department at King’s College London. She is a non-resident Senior Researcher at CSIS. She is the author of Russia’s War (2023, Polity) and Memory Makers (2023, Bloomsbury) and editor of two volumes on memory politics and history in Eastern Europe. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, where she previously worked as a Lecturer in Russian. Jade’s research focuses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014 as well as on national identity, memory, media and popular culture more broadly in Russia.
Francis Scarr joined BBC Monitoring in 2018, where he’s currently a Russia specialist focusing on the country’s state media. For four years he lived in Moscow until the invasion of Ukraine forced him and his colleagues to leave. Francis has been interviewed by major news outlets including the New York Times and The Guardian, and also written for The Telegraph.
Moderator
Jaroslava Barbieri is an Italo-Ukrainian teaching fellow and doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. She is also a researcher with Arena at Johns Hopkins University, a multi-disciplinary program dedicated to creating best practices for overcoming disinformation and polarisation. Her research interests include Ukrainian politics, Russian foreign policy, disinformation and the politics of memory in the post-Soviet region. She is currently working on an upcoming publication based on her PhD research on how Russia’s activities in the occupied areas of Ukraine since 2014 have laid the groundwork for Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, including Russia’s export of patriotic education programmes as instruments of indoctrination but also a recruitment mechanism for local and Russian military and security structures. Her media commentary has appeared on Sky News, NBC News, ABC News, France 24, Euronews, Channel 4 News, Newsweek, BBC Radio and LBC Radio.
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[@retromograph3893]

1:21:19 = Mr Silicon Curtain!!

[@henriikkak2091]

Good conversation. Terrible audio.

[@wallerwolf6930]

Deserves much more attention! It's shocking how pro-Russian statements can achieve more positive reactions, even in the West!

[@patrickkeyes5916]

Marvelous guests. It’s easy to forget that the Russians are bathed in a TV world that normalizes the views that have brought them to this horror.

[@dwl3006]

Are you describing Americans?

[@German-hv9nv]

1989 G.Bush :"If you dissolve Warsaw Pact and socialist bloc, Mr Gorbachev, we (Americans) would like to stay in Europe in any case. We've been european power for the last 40 years. And our allies want this." Gorbachev: "Of course you may stay. We agree with that. But what about NATO expansion?" J.Baker (State Secretary): " Not one inch eastward, Mr. Gorbachev, no expansion at all."

[@lw1zfog]

tHaNks dR jadE ! 😂 ‘King’s college indirectly invests £2.2 million in arms and defence and has increased its shares in the industry in recent years, despite its reputation for being Cambridge’s ‘progressive’ college, Varsity can reveal. Freedom of information requests showed the College’s £349m of assets to include shares in over fifty arms companies, held mostly via investments in a range of index tracker funds. As of March 2023, the college indirectly invested over £2,206,000 in companies like Lockheed Martin, Korea Aerospace, and BAE Systems.’

[@idkaukas]

very good overview of Russian narratives. I would just add why propaganda works. During the period of the Soviet Union, people could not speak their minds because they were punished more or less severely, even to the point of complete repression. Therefore, parents were even afraid to tell their children what happened to their family. So many facts were erased from people's memory, and many of the current 50s remember only that period when the Soviet Union was strengthened and life was quite stable compared to previous times. It was only necessary to support the then government and not criticize in any way.

[@user-hl1dq7nh4d]

like the fact that was erased from ur memory is that when the wall fell when communism crashed , the western world financial elites swarmed into ukraine in the chaos waving with lots of money to install a sockpuppet regime ... so they did in russia ...JELTSIN ...and so they managed to destroy the russian federation ... they cut loose kazachstan turkmenistan uzbekistan kigrgistan .. all the other ``stans`` at the botttom .. they cut loose georgia , azerbeidjan and armenia ... and ukraine ... to butcher these countries robbing them of their rescources ..and opposition to that corruption were mercyless killed by the world financial elites payed terror armies of their sockpuppet governaments ... millions dies in total in 35 yrs... u r out of ur mind ... talking about corruption and filth ... the western financial elites are and those that r in vavour of them ...

[@Joelmonterrey]

This is so good and so necessary.

[@Edgearoth]

Why are there always talks held by westerners and not Ukrainians? the conversation should be directed Ukrainians not westerners.

[@michelleisaacson6069]

There are a TON of these talks by Ukrainians. You probably don't see them because they're not in English, so not suggested by youtube. Although I've seen MANY by Ukrainians who speak English or have English subs. There are plenty of them

[@marathonx3]

One of the three speakers, Yaroslava, the moderator, is Ukrainian!

[@richardkent7369]

Us westeners can talk about anything we like. thanks all the same.

[@brentriley4911]

Nuland's role is not factored in