RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismRUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика2312-92202312-9247Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)3546810.22363/2312-9220-2023-28-2-333-343RMBKTRJOURNALISMЖурналистикаResearch ArticleRussia and Ukraine in the mirror of each other’s TV channelsРоссия и Украина во взаимном ТВ-информированииhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8861-0521DolgovaYulia I.ДолговаЮлия Игоревна

Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Television and Radio Department, Faculty of Journalism

кандидат филологических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры телевидения и радиовещания, факультет журналистики

YIDolgova@gmail.comLomonosov Moscow State UniversityМосковский государственный университет имени М.В. Ломоносова15072023282VOL 28, NO2 (2023)ТОМ 28, №2 (2023)33334320072023Copyright ©; 2023, Dolgova Y.I.Copyright ©; 2023, Долгова Ю.И.2023Dolgova Y.I.Долгова Ю.И.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/35468

TV channels of each country usually report international news differently according to the citizen’s interests and foreign policy priorities of said country. Thus, foreign policy conflicts can be covered in multiple ways, this fact obviously does not contribute to their resolution. Research focuses on the coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation by the state-owned channels of these countries in 2014-2016. The samples include all news related to Ukraine on the Russian TV channel (Russia 1) and Russia on the Ukrainian channel (UA First) during seven weeks when the selected key events occurred. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were used. All news items were classified into four categories: political news, military news, economic news, social news. The considerable influence of national interest on media frames were shown. Russian and Ukrainian journalists were similarly interested in each other's events, even if the news of the moment was not directly related to the conflict. Both TV channels covered important global news, however they often selected different events which would be interesting for their national audience or related to their country's foreign policy. The both channels had been gradually losing interest in Russian-Ukrainian crisis up to 2015.

Национальные телевизионные каналы обычно отбирают и представляют международные новости в соответствии с интересами граждан своих стран и приоритетами внешней политики. В процессе освещения международных конфликтов для зрителей создаются противоположные реальности, что не способствует разрешению конфликтов. Цель исследования - проанализировать освещение российско-украинского конфликта государственными каналами этих стран в 2014-2016 гг. В эмпирическую базу вошли сюжеты вечерних выпусков телевизионных новостей, связанные с Украиной, на российском телеканале («Россия 1») и материалы, в которых упоминалась Россия, на украинском телеканале (UA First) в течение семи недель, когда произошли выбранные ключевые события. Использовался количественный и качественный анализ. Все новости были разделены на четыре категории: политические, военные, экономические, социальные. Выявлено значительное влияние национальных интересов на освещение актуальных событий в период конфронтации между странами. И российские, и украинские журналисты в значительной степени проявляли интерес к событиям в стране-оппоненте, даже если текущие новости не имели прямого отношения к конфликту. В случае важных мировых событий они освещались обоими телеканалами. Наряду с этим журналисты часто рассказывали о том, что могло быть интересно их национальной аудитории или было обусловлено внешней политикой. Обнаружено, что оба канала постепенно теряют интерес к российско-украинскому кризису к 2015 г.

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