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DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2023.20.13.008

PROBLEMS OF COVERING IN MODERN RUSSIAN MEDIA COUNTERACTION TO THE TERRORIST THREAT IN THE CAUCASUS

Tarkhanova, Zhanna D.
Kavkaz Forum. 2023. Issue 13.
Abstract:
The article discusses the main trends and problems of coverage of fighting
the terrorist threat in the Caucasus in modern Russian media. An analysis is being
made of publications in leading Russian electronic and printed publications
devoted to the conduct of counter-terrorist operations in the Caucasus. The
problem is considered comprehensively - both the publications of journalists and
the published open reports and reports of the special services of Russia - the NAC
of the Russian Federation and the FSB of the Russian Federation, which, according
to the legislation of the Russian Federation, are engaged in the fight against
terrorism, are being analyzed. The versions put forward in the study are supported
by real examples and facts of the process of combating the terrorist threat in
southern Russia. Strategies and approaches to the activities of the mass media
in covering events of an anti-terrorist nature are identified and studied. The key
problems of the media in the differentiation of terminology relating to terrorists,
the terrorist threat are noted. The legal aspect of the relevant definitions is pointed
out. The author notes the inadmissibility of using labels and templates in the
media that indicate the nationality or religious affiliation of the criminal, critically
assesses the provocative activities of some media that allow manipulations with
the ethnic factor. In general, the study identifies and characterizes the problems
associated with the prevention of terrorism in modern Russian media. There is
a shortage of investigative journalism; the inefficiency of short news reports in
the process of forming public opinion on the condemnation of terrorism and
extremism is being revealed. The information content available to the general
reader does not fully reflect the existing and emerging risks and threats to the
national and state security of Russia. The provisions of the Comprehensive Plan for
Counteracting the Ideology of Terrorism in the Russian Federation for 2019-2023
relating to the information sphere are not being implemented in full. The indicated
factors actualize the need for further research into the causal relationship of these
problems.
Keywords: terrorism, combating the terrorist threat, Caucasus, mass media, law enforcement agencies.
For citation: Tarkhanova, Zh.D. Problems of covering in modern Russian media
counteraction to the terrorist threat in the Caucasus. KAVKAZ-FORUM. 2023,
iss. 13(20), pp. 112-127 (In Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2023.20.13.008
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