No. 280: Sanctions against Russia; Russia’s War in Ukraine on Social Media

Author(s): Gunter Deuber, Michael Rochlitz, Jacqueline Evans, Daria Zakharova
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 280
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2022

The topics of this issue are Sanctions against Russia and Russia’s War in Ukraine on Social Media. The contributions by Gunter Deuber and Michael Rochlitz look at the impact of sanctions on the Russian economy, expecting a devastating impact. Deuber also highlights that Russia had started to prepare for sanctions a long time ago, thus provoking a stronger sanctions regime to break its protective shield. Jacqueline Evans discusses TikTok’s role both in our understanding of real-time developments in the war and its potential for misinformation; Daria Zakharova examines the core peculiarities of VK (the Russian equivalent of Facebook).

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