Sanctions against Russia: Presentation of the first period of the sanctioning process in Russian media

Abstract

In this paper I analyze how sanctions against Russia are framed in Russian newspapers in the first period after the Ukrainian crisis. The analysis is based on data from the Newspaper subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus, which contains newspaper articles published from February to August 2014. Through concordance analysis of the word sankcii ‘sanctions’, we analyze the representation, also metaphorical, of sanctions in Russian media discourse.