Discursive realization of threat in pre-election communication

I

Threat statements with negative effect on voters

42

18.34 %

All participants of pre-election discourse, except
Pavel Grudinin

1

Threat statements with negative effect on voters

42

18.34 %

7 politicians:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (16)

Boris Titov (8)

Sergei Baburin (6)

Kseniya Sobchak (5)

Vladimir Putin (4)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (2)

Maksim Suraikin (1)

II

Threat statements with negative effect on non-voters (unfocused audience)

187

81.66 %

All politicians

2

Threat statements with negative effect on the representatives of the government, officials and representatives of the state apparatus

71

31.00%

7 politicians:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (35)

Maksim Suraikin (13)

Kseniya Sobchak (12)

Sergei Baburin (7)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (3)

Boris Titov (1)

3

Threat statements with negative effect on citizens who break the law

32

13.97%

7 politicians:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (13)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (7)

Maksim Suraikin (6)

Sergei Baburin (2)

Kseniya Sobchak (2)

Pavel Grudinin (1)

Vladimir Putin (1)

4

Threat statements with negative effect on citizens with high incomes or on profitable (including monopolistic) enterprises

16

6.98 %

7 politicians:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (5)

Sergei Baburin (2)

Pavel Grudinin (2)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (2)

Kseniya Sobchak (2)

Maksim Suraikin (2)

Boris Titov (1)

5

Threat statements with negative effect on dishonest businessmen or employers

16

6.98 %

5 politicians:

Sergei Baburin (6)

Grigorii Yavlinskii (5)

Pavel Grudinin (2)

Maksim Suraikin (2)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (1)

6

Threat statements with negative effect on citizens who support corruption and corrupt officials

15

6.55 %

5 politicians:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (7)

Kseniya Sobchak (3)

Sergei Baburin (2)

Maksim Suraikin (2)

Pavel Grudinin (1)

7

Threat statements with negative effect on countries-aggressors

9

3.93%

6 politicians:

Vladimir Putin (4)

Sergei Baburin (1)

Pavel Grudinin (1)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (1)

Maksim Suraikin (1)

Grigorii Yavlinskii (1)

8

Threat statements with negative effect on bankers

4

1.74 %

2 politicians:

Sergei Baburin (2)

Maksim Suraikin (2)

9

Threat statements with negative effect on those who do nothing for the country's development or hinders its development

4

1.74 %

2 politicians:

Vladimir Putin (3)

Vladimir Zhirinovskii (1)

10

Threat statements with negative effect on religious organizations

3

1.31 %

2 politicians:

Maksim Suraikin (2)

Grigorii Yavlinskii (1)

11

Threat statements with negative effect on the media, and also on the media with fake news

3

1.31 %

2 politicians:

Maksim Suraikin (2)

Grigorii Yavlinskii (1)

12

Threat statements with negative effect on representatives of housing and communal services

2

0.87 %

2 politicians:

Sergei Baburin (1)

Maksim Suraikin (1)

13

Threat statements with negative effect on judicial authority

2

0.87 %

2 politicians:

Kseniya Sobchak (1)

Grigorii Yavlinskii (1)

14

Threat statements with negative effect on administration of

educational institutions

2

0.87 %

1 politician:

Kseniya Sobchak (2)

15

Threat statements with negative effect on

international outlawed organizations or citizens supporting them

2

0.87 %

1 politician:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (2)

16

Threat statements with negative effect on those

who illegally uses someone else's intellectual property

2

0.87 %

1 politician:

Grigorii Yavlinskii (2)

17

Threat statements with negative effect on the opposition

2

0.87 %

2 politicians:

Maksim Suraikin (1)

Boris Titov (1)

18

Threat statements with negative effect on different groups of persons or mass addressee

2

0.87 %

1 politician:

Maksim Suraikin (2)

№

Politician

The percentage of votes,%

Number of threat statements

1

Vladimir Putin

76.6

12

2

Pavel Grudinin

11.8

7

3

Vladimir Zhirinovskii

5.66

17

4

Kseniya Sobchak

1.67

27

5

Grigorii Yavlinskii

1.04

89

6

Boris Titov

0.76

11

7

Maksim Suraikin

0.68

37

8

Sergei Baburin

0.65

29

№

Politician

Number
 of targeted types of threat statements

1

Vladimir Putin /
Boris Titov

4

2

Pavel Grudinin

5

3

Vladimir Zhirinovskii / Kseniya Sobchak

7

4

Sergei Baburin

9

5

Grigorii Yavlinskii

12

6

Maksim Suraikin

13