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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 Sociology</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Sociology</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Социология</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2272</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-8897</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumamba</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">46610</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2272-2025-25-3-835-844</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">ACYEVP</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Sociological lectures</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Социологический лекторий</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">Non-Western coverage of local crises in the societal-security perspective</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Незападное освещение локальных кризисов в контексте оценки общественной безопасности</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Khan</surname><given-names>A. K.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хан</surname><given-names>Абдул Кабиль</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор наук, доцент кафедры журналистики, средств массовой информации и коммуникации</bio><email>kabilkhan.jmc@diu.edu.bd</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Hossain</surname><given-names>A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Хоссейн</surname><given-names>Афтаб</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">доктор наук, доцент кафедры журналистики, средств массовой информации и коммуникации</bio><email>aftab.jmc@diu.edu.bd</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Shazed</surname><given-names>A. N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Шазед</surname><given-names>Абу Ноуфель</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru">ассистент кафедры журналистики, средств массовой информации и коммуникации</bio><email>abu24-749@diu.edu.bd</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Daffodil International University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Международный университет Даффодила</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-10-15" publication-format="electronic"><day>15</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 25, NO3 (2025)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 25, №3 (2025)</issue-title><fpage>835</fpage><lpage>844</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-10-23"><day>23</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Khan A.K., Hossain A., Shazed A.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Хан А.К., Хоссейн А., Шазед А.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Khan A.K., Hossain A., Shazed A.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Хан А.К., Хоссейн А., Шазед А.Н.</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/sociology/article/view/46610">https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/46610</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article considers a small segment of the non-Western-centric world to understand how a selection of Bangladeshi news media covers the Russia-Ukraine conflict, i.e., the authors focus on the mass media coverage rather than how the Bangladeshi government may influence the news production. The research is based on two questions: RQ1 . How do Bangladeshi newspapers frame the Russian Ukrainian conflict; RQ2 . Which variables seem to impact the conflict coverage by Bangladeshi newspapers. The article begins with a literature review that briefly summarizes the current state of knowledge about the mass media coverage of armed conflicts. The second section presents the theoretical tools used to interpret the collected data on media framing, the third section - the research methodology, the fourth section - the case of the daily Bangladeshi newspapers coverage and framing of the Russian Ukrainian armed conflict. This study of two major daily newspapers in Bangladesh and their coverage of the Ukraine crisis and the Special Military Operation (SMO) represents a Non-Western mass media content analysis. The Ukraine crisis represents a major newsworthy topic in the Global North (the collective West), which is very deeply politicised as a form of information warfare against Russians and Russia’s interests. Therefore, the authors make use of a media framing as a theoretical basis in this qualitative study of the SMO news content of Daily Star and Dhaka Tribune . The results of the study are interesting and controversial: the Bangladesh mass media framing of the news stories resembles that of the Global North. However, there are some specific national features determined by the country’s history and active pursuit of a balanced and neutral foreign policy towards the Global North and the Global South, which creates a nuanced understanding of Russia’s security concerns and dilemma as legitimate, since Bangladesh’s foreign policy philosophy is based on the idea of being no one’s enemy and a friend to everyone. However, this philosophy leads to obvious contradictions and dissonance described in the paper.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье представлен небольшой сегмент незападноц ентричного мира - показано, как несколько бангладешских средств массовой информации освещают российско-украинский конфликт, т.е. авторы сосредоточены на особенностях медиафрейминга, а не на том, как правительство страны могло бы контролировать производство новостей. Авторы провели исследование, чтобы ответить на два вопроса: как именно представлен российско-украинский конфликт в бангладешских газетах с позиций используемых для этого приоритетных фреймов; какие переменные определяют медийное освещение данного конфликта. В начале статьи приведен краткий литературный обзор, суммирующий основные направления и результаты изучения медийной репрезентации вооруженных конфликтов, затем охарактеризованы концептуальные основания интерпретации эмпирических данных при реконструировании медиафрейминга, уточнена исследовательская методология и обоснован выбранный «кейс» - особенности освещения и фрейминга российско-украинского вооруженного конфликта в бангладешских газетах. Авторы считают, что изучение двух основных ежедневных бангладешских газет в заданном тематическом поле (репрезентации специальной военной операции) - своего рода качественный контент-анализ особенностей медиафрейминга в незападно-центричном пространстве. Украинский кризис - наиболее важная новостная повестка на Глобальном Севере (коллективном Западе), которая глубоко политизирована в интересах ведения информационной войны против россиян и российских интересов. Авторы используют теорию медиафрейминга как концептуальное основание для качественного анализа медийного освещения (доминирующих фреймов) специальной военной операции в двух бангладешских газетах - «Дейли Стар» и «Дакка Трибьюн». Результаты анализа интересны и противоречивы: с одной стороны, используемые бангладешскими газетами фреймы повторяют те, что используются Глобальным Севером; с другой стороны, очевидны и национальные особенности медиафрейминга, обусловленные историей страны и ее активными попытками проводить сбалансированную внешнюю политику - нейтралитета в отношении как Глобального Севера, так и Глобального Юга; результат - признание легитимными опасений России относительно своей национальной безопасности. Философия бангладешской внешней политики «дружить со всеми, ни с кем не враждовать» порождает противоречия в медийном отражении важных международных конфликтов.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Bangladesh</kwd><kwd>mass media</kwd><kwd>framing</kwd><kwd>Russian Ukrainian conflict</kwd><kwd>journalism</kwd><kwd>news production</kwd><kwd>content analysis</kwd><kwd>conflict media coverage</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Бангладеш</kwd><kwd>средства массовой информации</kwd><kwd>фрейминг</kwd><kwd>российско-украинский конфликт</kwd><kwd>журнализм</kwd><kwd>производство новостей</kwd><kwd>контент-анализ</kwd><kwd>медийное освещение конфликта</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Alitavoli R. Framing the news on the Syrian War: A comparative study of antiwar.com and cnn.com editorials. 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