Information Support for Eurasian Integration: Russian Media Coverage

Section: Modern Journalism: Subjects and Issues

Mass media as a major tool of the information support for the EAEU integration processes ensure the internal stability of the Union, without which further consolidation of the young regional organization is hardly possible in the international arena. This paper analyzes news content of the leading television channels as well as print and online media in the Russian Federation and identifies which thematic components of the image of Eurasian Economic Union influencing the way the population perceives the Union, and to what extent, are now offered to the Russian audience. The study showed that the information support for Eurasian integration, unregulated for five years and left to mass media themselves, led to the fact that as of the 4th quarter of 2019 the main themes were: EAEU summits, legal regulation and prospects for relations development of the Union countries. Notably, the overwhelming majority of materials of this narrow thematic spectrum is based on the newsbreaks suggested by ECE and represents impersonal information, as opposed to personalized materials illustrating the advantages of integration for ordinary citizens. All this leads to information apathy to integration themes both in society and on the part of journalists.

Churchill E.-M. (1991) The Mass Media and Regional Integration in Africa. Africa Media Review 5 (1): 17–35.

Didiugwu I. F. (2014) The Mass Media and the Challenges of Regional Integration in Africa. In 5th European Conference on African Studies «African Dynamics in a Multipolar World». Pp. 710–751.

Eilders C., Voltmer K. (2003) Zwischen Deutschland und Europa [Between Germany and Europe]. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft 51 (2): 250–270. DOI: 10.5771/1615-634x-2003-2-250 (In German)

Eriksen E. O., Fossum J. E. (2000) Democracy in the European Union. Integration Through Deliberation? London; New York: Routledge. Pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203465127

Fetoshi A. (2017) The Role of Media in European Integration. Process – Kosovo Case. Journal of Mass Communication & Journalism 7 (3): 1–6. DOI: 10.4172/2165-7912.1000338

Gal’tsina D. A. (2017) Natsional’nye osobennosti osveshcheniya voprosov evraziyskoy integratsii v SMI gosudarstv-uchastnikov EAES: v 2-kh ch. Ch. 2 [National Characteristics of Covering Eurasian Integration in Mass Media of EAEU Member States: in 2 parts. Part 2]. Filologicheskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki 1 (67): 17–21. (In Russian)

Gerhards J. (1993) Westeuropäische Integration und die Schwierigkeiten der Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit [Western European Integration and the Difficulties of Creating European Public]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 22 (2): 96–110. (In German)

Kalyuga A. A. (2016) Informatsionnaya politika v stranakh SNG [Information Policy in CIS Countries]. Nauka o cheloveke: gumanitarnye issledovaniya 4 (26): 91–100. (In Russian)

Kevin D. (2015) Europe in the Media: a Comparison of Reporting, Representation, and Rhetoric in National Media Systems in Europe. Routledge.

Latzer M., Sauerwein F. (2006) Europäisierung durch Medien: Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der Öffentlichkeitsforschung [Europeanization Through the Media: Approaches and Findings in Public Research]. In W. R. Langenbucher, M. Latzer (eds.) Europäische Öffentlichkeit und medialer Wandel [European Public and Media Change]. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-531-90272-2_1 (In German)

Lohner J. (2011) Die Europäische Union in der Regionalpresse: Inhalte und journalistische Praxis aktueller Berichtserstattung [The European Union in the Regional Press: Content and Journalistic Practice of More Current Reporting]. LIT Verlag. Pp. 38–44. (In German)

Mang’era S. D. (2014) Media and Regional Integration: a Case Study of the East Africa Community: Research Project University of Nairobi, Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies.

Meshkova T. A., Izotov V. S., Demidkina O. V., Kofner Yu. K. (2019) EAES v menyayushchemsya geopoliticheskom kontekste: prioritety mezhdunarodnogo sotrudnichestva [EAEU in the Changing Geopolitical Context: Priorities of International Cooperation]. Vestn. RUDN. Ser.: Politologiya 21 (1): 7–33. DOI: 10.22363/2313-1438-2019-21-1-7-33 (In Russian)

Osavelyuk E. A. (2016) Rol’ sredstv massovoy informatsii v obespechenii informatsionnoy bezopasnosti Rossii na evraziyskom prostranstve [The Role of Mass Media in Ensuring Russia’s Information Security in the Eurasian Space]. Mezhdunarodnoe sotrudnichestvo evraziyskikh gosudarstv: politika, ekonomika, parvo 3 (8): 93–105. (In Russian)

Pfetsch B. (2008) Agents of Transnational Debate Across Europe: the Press in Emerging European Public Sphere. Javnost − The Public 15 (4): 21–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2008.11008980

Poddubskaya T. A. (2018) Mezhgosudarstvennaya teleradiokompaniya “Mir” na informatsionnom prostranstve stran SNG [Interstate Television and Radio Company Mir in the Information Space of CIS Countries]. Prepodavatel’ XXI vek 2 (2): 260–270. (In Russian)

Popov S. Yu. (2015) SMI kak instrument informatsionnoy politiki Soyuznogo gosudarstva Rossii i Belorussii [Mass Media as a Tool of Information Policy of the Union State of Russia and Belarus]. Gumanitarnye, sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie i obshchestvennye nauki 3 (1): 101–105. (In Russian)

Strugovets V. M. (2011) Informatsionnaya politika SNG: vzglyad v proshloe, perspektiva na budushchee [CIS Information Policy: a Look Backward and Future Prospect]. Vlast’ 6: 119–122. (In Russian)

Temirbulatov A. M., Gurushkin P. Yu. (2013) Formirovanie obshchego mass-media prostranstva i osobennosti informatsionnogo sotrudnichestva stran SNG [The Formation of a Common Mass Media Space and the Characteristics of CIS Countries’ Information Cooperation]. Vestn. Sankt-Peterburgsk. un-ta. Yazyk i literatura 4: 185–188. (In Russian)

Tettey W. J. (2001) The Media and Democratization in Africa: Contributions, Constraints and Concerns of the Private Press. Media, Culture & Society 23 (1): 5–31. DOI: 10.1177/016344301023001001

Triga V., Vadratsikas K. (2016–2018) The Impact of Media Representations of the EU and Its Policies on European Identity. Department of Communication and Internet Studies, Cyprus University of Technology for the COHESIFY project.

Vartanova E. L. (2014) Postsovetskie transformatsii rossiyskikh SMI i zhurnalistiki [Post-Soviet Transformations of Russian Mass Media and Journalism]. Mосcоw: MediaMir Publ. (In Russian)

Vartanova E. L. (2019) Mediasistemy stran SNG: k formirovaniyu edinogo informatsionnogo prostranstva [Media Systems of CIS Countries: to the Formation of Information Space]. Vestn. MAG 2-3 (62-63): 26–27. (In Russian)

Venidiktov S. V. (2016) Evraziyskoe informatsionnoe prostranstvo: unifikatsiya ili koordinatsiya? [Eurasian Information Space: Unification or Coordination?]. Nauchnyy rezul’tat. Sotsial’nye i gumanitarnye issledovaniya. 2 (1 (7)): 60–65. DOI: 10.18413/2408-932X-2016-2-1-60-65 (In Russian)

Vikhrova O. Yu. (2020) SMI i informatsionnaya bezopasnost’ EAES [Mass Media and EAEU Information Security]. Mediascope 1. Available at: http://www.mediascope.ru/2613 (accessed: 03.12.2020). DOI: 10.30547/mediascope.1.2020.7 (In Russian)