Narrative Strategies in Culture, Translation and Media: Stories of Beslan as a Test Case

One of the key guidelines humanities can safely use today, as they are negotiating the cultural turn both on the methodological and on the daily bases, is set by the narrative theory. Diversity of research paradigms is hindering the search for efficient tools that can be applied to settling up intercultural and international conflicts. However, among the multitude of turns there is one that appears to stand out against the cultural-theoretical landscape, namely, the social theory of translation which draws on the methodology of the narrative theory and, accordingly, applies narrative strategies to analysing translations in the context of social and political crises. This article discusses some narrative strategies adopted by the social theory of translation and by the media studies. By analysing such strategies in Yuri Dude’s documentary “Beslan. Remember” and comparing it to the American documentaries “Citizenfour: The Truth of Snowden”, “The Jinx” and