Hate Language and Elections: Federal and Regional Levels. Monitoring Results

SOVA Center for information and Analysis publishes short results of monitoring studies of hate language in Russian Mass Media.

The list of monitored media included 54 print and broadcast outlets in Moscow and 6 other regions (Krasnodar, Penza, Saratov, Izhevsk, Yaroslavl, Barnaul).

The monitoring was carried out between 1 September 2007 and March 2008, and it coincided with the State Duma and Presidential election campaigns.

The English-language PDF version of the report can be found here. Full version in Russian is also available.