Features of Information Coverage of Socio-political Processes in Russia-Kazakhstan Border Region (Based on Content-analysis of Regional Mass Media)

Abstract

The following paper features an attempt to evaluate the degree of activity of bilateral contacts at Russia-Kazakhstan border. The research was conducted within the program of targeted funding of BR10965282 project “Kazakhstan-Russia border: historical context and new geopolitical reality” by the Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on peculiarities of information space of northern regions of Republic of Kazakhstan and Omsk, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk oblasts of Russian Federation. It seems possible to present common and specific cases that occur during information coverage of socio-political agenda in regional Mass Media in border region. The dominating cases were determined to reveal the flexibleness and susceptibility of information space to the occurring events in the neighboring country. Consequently, a degree of presence of Kazakh agenda in Russian information space and Russian agenda in Kazakh information space was determined. Several proposals on possibility of involvement of regional Mass Media on systematic basis at a state level have been made. For instance, a more active formation of information agenda at a regional level was proposed for purposes of counteraction to asymmetric hybrid impact in context of information wars in the world.