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POLITICS
Volume 35, Issue 3-4, Pages 301-315Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9256.12097
Keywords
conspiracy theories; Russia Today (RT); public diplomacy; Russian foreign policy
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This article explores the use of conspiracy theories by the Russian international television channel Russia Today (RT). Based on Mark Fenster's definition of conspiracy theory as a populist theory of power, the article studies the process of how various conspiratorial notions in programmes broadcast by RT legitimise Russian domestic and foreign policies and, in turn, delegitimise policies of the American government. It argues that the conspiratorial component of RT's broadcasting appears as a political instrument in the context of the post-Cold War world and is applied to attract various global audiences with different political views.
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