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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Political Science</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Политология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-1438</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2313-1446</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">31856</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-1438-2022-24-3-545-561</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>POLITICAL POLARIZATION AND INTERNET PROTEST</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ПОЛЯРИЗАЦИЯ И ИНТЕРНЕТ-ПРОТЕСТ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Perception by Russian Social Media Users of Mass Protests During the Attempted Coup in Kazakhstan</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Восприятие российскими пользователями социальных медиа массовых протестов при попытке государственного переворота в Казахстане</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5549-8107</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Brodovskaya</surname><given-names>Elena V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Бродовская</surname><given-names>Елена Викторовна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Doctor of Political Sciences, Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Political Studies of the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>доктор политических наук, главный научный сотрудник Центра политических исследований</p></bio><email>brodovskaya@inbox.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3413-4264</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Parma</surname><given-names>Roman V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Парма</surname><given-names>Роман Васильевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Political Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат политических наук, доцент Департамента политологии факультета социальных наук и массовых коммуникаций</p></bio><email>rvparma@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1309-1784</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Podrezov</surname><given-names>Konstantiv A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Подрезов</surname><given-names>Константин Андреевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in Political Sciences, Rector</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат политических наук, ректор</p></bio><email>podrezov@tsput.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3377-7679</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Davydova</surname><given-names>Maria A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Давыдова</surname><given-names>Мария Александровна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Research Assistant at the Center for Political Studies of the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Mass Communications</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>лаборант-исследователь Центра политических исследований</p></bio><email>marchikdavydova@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Financial University under the government of the Russian Federation</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Финансовый университет при Правительстве РФ</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Тульский государственный педагогический университет им. Л.Н. Толстого</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-07" publication-format="electronic"><day>07</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>24</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Internet and Politics</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Интернет и политика</issue-title><fpage>545</fpage><lpage>561</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-09-07"><day>07</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Brodovskaya E.V., Parma R.V., Podrezov K.A., Davydova M.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Бродовская Е.В., Парма Р.В., Подрезов К.А., Давыдова М.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Brodovskaya E.V., Parma R.V., Podrezov K.A., Davydova M.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Бродовская Е.В., Парма Р.В., Подрезов К.А., Давыдова М.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/31856">https://journals.rudn.ru/political-science/article/view/31856</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">The article presents the results of an applied political research on the representation of the 2022 Kazakh events in the Russian segment of social media. The context of the study stems from the significant intersection of the Russian and Kazakh segments of social media and the mutual influence of political processes. Under the political mobilization of the mass protests in Kazakhstan, which turned into an attempted coup, the activities of Russian counterelites intensified in various regions of Russia. Using a hybrid research strategy combined with cognitive mapping and social media analysis the authors managed to identify dynamic, structural and substantive characteristics of the information representation of the Kazakh events in the Russian segment of the Internet. The authors concluded that the scale of the Kazakh protests allowed to draw the short-term interest of the Russian audience, mainly from the regions bordering Kazakhstan. The use of economic triggers (rising prices, inefficient social policy, etc.) led to the involvement of the adult audience in the discussions around the Kazakh events, while a significant part of youth and young adults was excluded from information flows around the events. The study revealed that the Russian opposition attempted to use manipulative “contamination” technology in order to extrapolate the political and economic discontent in Kazakhstan to the situation in Russia. At the same time, the greatest resonance in the Russian segment of users was caused directly by the participation of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the settlement, and not by the social and economic triggers that led to the events.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">Контекст исследования обусловлен существенным пересечением российских и казахстанских сегментов социальных медиа и взаимным влиянием политических процессов. В условиях политической мобилизации массовых протестов в Казахстане, переросших в попытку государственного переворота, активизировалась деятельность российских контрэлит в различных субъектах Российской Федерации. Применение гибридной стратегии исследования в сочетании когнитивного картирования и социально-медийного анализа позволило выявить динамические, структурные и содержательные характеристики репрезентации событий в Казахстане в российских социальных медиа. По результатам исследования авторами сделан вывод о том, что масштабность протестов в Казахстане позволила привлечь кратковременный интерес российской аудитории преимущественно в приграничных регионах. Использование экономических триггеров (рост цен, неэффективная социальная политика и др.) обусловило вовлечение взрослой аудитории в обсуждение казахстанских событий, существенная часть младшей и старшей молодежи была выключена из информационных потоков, посвященных событиям в Казахстане. В ходе исследования была выявлена попытка российских оппозиционных акторов через применение манипулятивной технологии «заражения» экстраполировать политико-экономическое недовольство в Казахстане на ситуацию в Российской Федерации. При этом наибольший резонанс в российском сегменте пользователей был вызван непосредственно включением Организации Договора о коллективной безопасности (ОДКБ) в процесс урегулирования внутриполитического конфликта.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>mass protests</kwd><kwd>coup d’etat</kwd><kwd>social media</kwd><kwd>discourses</kwd><kwd>information flow</kwd><kwd>social media analysis</kwd><kwd>manipulation technologies</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>массовые протесты</kwd><kwd>государственный переворот</kwd><kwd>социальные медиа</kwd><kwd>дискурсы</kwd><kwd>информационный поток</kwd><kwd>социально-медийный анализ</kwd><kwd>технологии манипуляции</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ и ЭИСИ в рамках научного проекта № 21-011-33041 «Цифровые платформы как инструмент мобилизации протестных настроений граждан Республики Беларусь и Российской Федерации в 2020–2021 гг.».</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">The research was carried out with the financial support of the RFBR and the EISI within the framework of the scientific project No. 21-011-33041 “Digital platforms as a tool for mobilizing protest sentiments of citizens of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation in 2020–2021.”</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Akhremenko, A.S., Stukal, D.K., &amp; Petrov, A.P. 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