Good evening readers,
I am closing the project of “IS IT PROPAGANDA?”. The goal of this publication was to present, to a mostly western public, an aspect of the coverage of international events from a Russian perspective. I used the Russian Political TV Show БОЛЬШАЯ ИГРА (“The Big Game”) as a medium to do so, as it is, to my opinion, one of the most respectful, professional, and accurate display of events involving Russian and the rest of the world.
I am ending this project for several reasons. Number one, I think it became redundant at times in the topics covered, and it was more of a translation exercise than anything else. Secondly, and most importantly, I will focus my time to conduct research to complete my Ph.D. in International Relations at the Sevastopol State University (СевГУ), for which I obtained a 3 year grant by the Ministry of Science of Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The theme of my dissertation is: “Russia’s Foreign Policy in Tropical Africa”.
I want to thank all my readers for following my publications. I do hope you enjoyed it, learned from it, and found a way to fact check and/or obtained a different perspective on how Russia is delivering information to its viewers.
I will continue to read substacks publications and will keep this page open until substacks decide to delete it for non-activity, if that’s a thing they would do.
Anyway, as always, I remain available to you for questions, comments, ideas in any of the following languages: English, Russian, and French.
Once again, thank you very much for allowing me to do this project for the past few months.