Foreign Agents in Russia - Doria

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14 media company's followers. However as following to my research method, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, I am not conducting a research poll on popularities of different views. I simply look what kind of different views are there represented in Russian media. Echo Moskvy is a good alternative media source to Ria Novosti as it is very different platform originally focusing on radio broadcasts compared to more generalized and television related Ria Novosti and RT. It represents the smaller media companies of Russia. Moreover although I found only 73 news articles with foreign agents from Echo Moskvy and 326 from Ria Novosti, the fair dominance of news/knowledge coverage from Ria has the resoursive edge in creating dominating discourses. Russians in general simply hear and read more news from Ria Novosti adding the validity of the misbalance in the research material. Different from the other primary research material I use is the law on non-commercial organizations(закон о некоммерческих организациях) which was updated in July 2012 by amendments famous from the foreign agent stipulations. It is important to examine the law's content because much of the news material on foreign agents is connected to the law that made foreign agents a legal norm. The law was written by members of the United Russia (Единная Россия) , accepted by Russian parliament Duma and signed by Russian president Vladimir Putin in July 18 th . I will perform the analysis on the law without juridical expertise in terms of what kind of discourses it embeds. Russian laws and legal information are published in database of service network Konsultant Pluys (Консултант Плюс) www.konsultant.ru which I use as my source. Konsultant Plyus follows actively the legislative processes and as a source it displays the validy of laws. Together put there is a heterogeneous group of reporters, politicians and experts whose speech and actions I will analyze. Addingly I will analyze related action and events per se from these sources. Following the Foucauldian research principles to pick up fit research material, I consider the relevance of the content to be more important than the status of the ones who make statements. I will not analyze why something is published but how. Still, the people involved are part of the whole contexts analyzed. As I noted above, discourses have temporal and spatial dimensions and my hypothesis is that especially in case of foreign agents they are also influenced by globalization. My primary interest is in combined discourses of foreign agent(s) which is also the key words I searched my material with. I also ran up with material with these two words separately. Such material helped me to context the less established term agent, but my primary material is conditioned by the connection of the two words. In the vast majority of the research results in Russian language the context with foreign agents proved to be in NKOs and the amendments of the NKO law while the few exceptions had another references making it easier to analyze the ideas behind foreign agents. Most of the research material was somehow descriptive or at least making a statement that foreign agents are somehow
15 related to the main news story. The time limitation of my primary research material is one year forward from the accepting decision of the State Duma to the new NKO law in July the 13 th 2012. I do not analyze the time when foreign agents was only talked about as an abstract meaning because beginning of that discussion is hard to describe although the clear discussion in media about the law started only in June 2012. It is much more easy and clear to start the analysis from the day the law was accepted by the legislative body, the State Duma. In the temporal dimension there were many events that can bee seen indirectly connected to foreign agents in news stories and supplement the view of Russian politics at the time. The introduction of the juridical concept of foreign agents has affected to the discourses of foreign agents but as the law has not been established in one year, its effect to the dominant discourses can be expected to be quite limited. Originally my intention was to cut the time limitation into the end of 2012 but during the spring of 2013 there was so many relevant events on the subject of foreign agents, among other the first official allegations of NKOs to register, that out limiting of them would have seemed invalid. While some of the news give statements on foreign agents that are later corrected or changed, my outdated material can still be considered valid as it describes the discourses at the time of the NKO law's first year. Moreover an average person following the news would miss at least part of the news coverage on one subject, so even if the new and the old statements were in conflict with each other, both should be considered as either one of them might have contributed stronger in formation of discourses. As I am taking the archeological research method for my study, the relevantly short period of a 'snapshot' of the discourses is fit for my goals (Kendall and Wickham 1999, 28). The time period is also short enough for me to get most of the relevant news coverage from the sources of my choosing. The recency of this time period is both pleasant and challenging in the view that by October 2013 I have not found a qualitative scientific research on this exact topic, hence it should be relevantly easy to find something new with my research, but at the same time I cannot be sure of the historical significance of the events or discourses I am looking into here. The introduction of the new NKO law was not considered as one of the main events of 2012 by all of the Russian mainstream media (i. ex Argumenty i Fakty 2013) but some publishers (i. ex. Vlast' 2012, Russia Behind Headlines 2012) did recognize this in their annual summaries. In the perspective of Russian democracy in general, the year 2012 had plenty of interesting events including new law on party registration, introducing blacklists of internet pages, and taking steps to prohibit homosexual propaganda in the federal level. The wave of anti-Putin protests that started in late 2011 after the Russian parliamentary elections continued in spring 2012 peaking in May when – depending on the source – up to 20 000 protestors gathered in Moscow. While the events are not necessary directly connected to each other they are interconnected in larger scale by the same spatial and temporary
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