The Consequences of the Internet for Russia's Informational Influence Abroad

Informazioni relative al progetto

RUSINFORM

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 819025

DOI

10.3030/819025

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 2 Ottobre 2019

Data di avvio 1 Novembre 2019

Data di completamento 31 Ottobre 2025

Finanziato da

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Costo totale

€ 1 999 535,00

Contributo UE

€ 1 999 535,00

Coordinato da

UNIVERSITAT PASSAU
Germany

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Pubblicazioni

Book chapters (1)

Wie die Herrschaftselite Russlands den Krieg kommuniziert – „Strategische Regierungskommunikation“ in einer personalistischen Autokratie

Autori: Florian Toepfl, Arista Beseler
Pubblicato in: Krieg der Narrative, Numero 2023, 2024, Pagina/e 33-46
Editore: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111331508-003

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

Trolls Behind the Mask of Journalists: How Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot Media Group Was Organized

Autori: Serge Poliakoff
Pubblicato in: Problems of Post-Communism, Numero 72, 2025, Pagina/e 416-428, ISSN 1075-8216
Editore: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2024.2438336

The Kremlin-Controlled Search Engine Yandex as a Tool of Foreign Propaganda

Autori: Kravets, Daria; Beseler, Arista; Toepfl, Florian; Ryzhova, Anna
Pubblicato in: Russian Analytical Digest, Numero 2024, 2024, ISSN 1863-0421
Editore: ETH Zurich
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000673162

Wie deutschsprachige alternative Medien vom Kreml unterwandert und instrumentalisiert werden

Autori: Arista Beseler
Pubblicato in: Russland-Analysen, Numero 2024, 2024, Pagina/e 2-4, ISSN 1613-3390
Editore: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa
DOI: 10.31205/ra.456.01

Nach dem Aufstand: der Untergang von Jewgenij Prigoschins digitalem Imperium

Autori: Serge Poliakoff
Pubblicato in: Russland-Analysen, Numero 2024, 2025, Pagina/e 16-20, ISSN 1613-3390
Editore: Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
DOI: 10.31205/ra.464.03

Brutalisierung und Repression

Autori: Florian Töpfl
Pubblicato in: osteuropa, Numero 75, 2025, Pagina/e 351-364, ISSN 0030-6428
Editore: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
DOI: 10.35998/oe-2025-022

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia's foreign communication

Autori: Florian Toepfl; Daria Kravets; Anna Ryzhova; Arista Beseler
Pubblicato in: Information, Communication & Society, 2022, Pagina/e 1-19, ISSN 1468-4462
Editore: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2022.2065213

Conduits of the Kremlin’s Informational Influence Abroad? How German-Language Alternative Media Outlets Are Connected to Russia’s Ruling Elites.

Autori: Arista Beseler; Florian Toepfl
Pubblicato in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, Numero February 20, 2024, 2024, Pagina/e 1-20, ISSN 1940-1612
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612241230284

The Consequences of Evidence- Versus Non-Evidence-Based Understandings of the “Truth”: How Russian Speakers in Germany Negotiate Trust in Their Transnational News Environments.

Autori: Anna Ryzhova; Florian Toepfl
Pubblicato in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, Numero June 12, 2024, 2024, ISSN 1940-1612
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612241257872

Mapping the website and mobile app audiences of Russia’s foreign communication outlets, RT and Sputnik, across 21 countries

Autori: Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Neil Thurman, Richard Fletcher
Pubblicato in: Harvard Misinformation Review, Numero 3(6), 2022, ISSN 2766-1652
Editore: Harvard Kennedy School, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
DOI: 10.37016/mr-2020-110

Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autori: Arista Beseler; Daria Kravets; Anna Ryzhova; Florian Toepfl;
Pubblicato in: Journalism, Numero 24(12), 2023, Pagina/e 2762-2780, ISSN 1464-8849
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14648849231157845

Gauging reference and source bias over time: how Russia’s partially state-controlled search engine Yandex mediated an anti-regime protest event

Autori: Daria Kravets, F. Toepfl
Pubblicato in: Information, Communication & Society, Numero 25(15), 2021, Pagina/e 1-17, ISSN 1369-118X
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2021.1933563

Facebook, the EU and Russia’s war: Challenges of moderating authoritarian news

Autori: Julia Kling, Serge Poliakoff
Pubblicato in: Internet Policy Review, Numero 14, 2025, ISSN 2197-6775
Editore: Internet Policy Review
DOI: 10.14763/2025.3.2036

Search Engines as “Globalizing Machines”: International News Flow Through Google During the 2020 Belarusian Presidential Election

Autori: Kravets, Daria
Pubblicato in: International Journal Of Communication, Numero 18(2024), 2024, Pagina/e 2577-2597, ISSN 1932-8036
Editore: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
DOI: 10.1080/15213260701813454

Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results

Autori: Toepfl Florian; Ryzhova Anna; Kravets Daria; Beseler, Arista
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Communication, Numero 17, 2023, Pagina/e 1126-1146, ISSN 1932-8036
Editore: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7612297

ANO Dialog: innovation in controlling Russia’s digital information

Autori: Serge Poliakoff, F. Toepfl, J. Kling
Pubblicato in: Post-Soviet Affairs, Numero 2025, 2025, Pagina/e 1-24, ISSN 1060-586X
Editore: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/1060586x.2025.2559218

Mapping the Global Audiences of Russia’s Domestic News:How Social Networks Function as Transmitters of Authoritarian News to Foreign Audiences

Autori: Julia Kling
Pubblicato in: International Journal of Communication, Numero 16, 2022, Pagina/e 4050–4072, ISSN 1932-8036
Editore: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7113552

Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires

Autori: Anna Ryzhova
Pubblicato in: Sage Journals - Journalism, Numero 25(1), 2024, Pagina/e 218-237, ISSN 1464-8849
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/14648849221130557

Yandex’s Top-5 News as a Tool of Russia’s Propaganda Abroad: A Case Study of Belarus

Autori: Daria Kravets
Pubblicato in: The International Journal of Press/Politics, Numero 2025, 2025, ISSN 1940-1612
Editore: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/19401612251349018

Entertainment interspersed with propaganda: how non-legacy-news accounts deliver explicitly political content to mass audiences on Russia’s most popular social network VK

Autori: Julia Kling, Florian Toepfl, Pascal Jürgens
Pubblicato in: Information, Communication & Society, Numero 28, 2025, Pagina/e 1252-1269, ISSN 1369-118X
Editore: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1369118x.2024.2420029