The Role Positioning and Political Function of Russian News Media

Zheng Cui,Wenjin Fan

doi:10.26794/2226-7867-2021-11-4-92-101

Abstract

News media is an essential mouthpiece of a country’s politics, economy and diplomacy, which, as a special symbol of social culture, records social reforms and grasps the context of national development. In the process of information dissemination, the Russian government builds the mainstream media by strengthening media control and integrating national resources and maintains the political rule of those in power by making use of the mutual shaping of politics and news media. The Russian news media plays an increasingly significant role in Russian political life, realising its social control function through public opinion guidance, agenda-setting and supervision towards the government.

Highlights

News media is an essential mouthpiece of a country’s politics, economy and diplomacy, which, as a special symbol of social culture, records social reforms and grasps the context of national development
News media plays an active role in the historical development of modern society and has a profound influence on the politics, economy, society and culture in the process of social-historical development
The news media in this period was still a tool of the government and was under the government’s leadership, the freedom and independence granted by the loose political environment endowed the news media with the function of “the fourth power” in the West

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Introduction

News media is an essential mouthpiece of a country’s politics, economy and diplomacy, which, as a special symbol of social culture, records social reforms and grasps the context of national development. The role positioning and political function of Russian news media. News media plays an active role in the historical development of modern society and has a profound influence on the politics, economy, society and culture in the process of social-historical development.

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