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2. A war of narratives: a comparative map on how the leading US and Russian newspapers reported the first meeting between Trump and Putin
- Author:
- Fernanda Magnotta and Roman Chukov
- Publication Date:
- 07-2017
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- Rethinking Russia
- Abstract:
- Last Friday, during the G20 summit, the US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for the first time. The meeting was surrounded by expectations and marked by all types of speculation. The bilateral relationship has been controversial since the Obama administration, but the polemics have gained momentum in last year’s election when Trump came to power. Trump’s agenda becomes even more critical as he has been waging a war on the American media since the campaign. Trump popularized the term “fake news” by accusing the CNN network of making up facts, and made the “post-truth” concept the word of the year of 2016, according to Oxford University. In addition, he decided to communicate directly with the American society through Twitter not to depend on the curatorship of the country’s major media outlets.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, Media, Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Eurasia, North America, and United States of America
3. Donald Trump is America’s Boris Yeltsin. What The Two Presidents Have In Common
- Author:
- Nikolay Pakhomov
- Publication Date:
- 08-2017
- Content Type:
- Commentary and Analysis
- Institution:
- Rethinking Russia
- Abstract:
- When US President Trump on August 2 signed a bill that reinforces and expands to some extent sanctions on Moscow, the anti-Russian campaign emerged somewhat divorced from real policy-making. The bill has clarified the Congress position on the matter, with the ongoing investigation into Trump’s and his acolytes’ alleged ties with Russia shifting public attention to the legal aspect. While lambasting Trump, some intellectuals seek to establish nominal correlations between the US president and Russia and to draw historical parallels between the two countries. This clearly creative approach on the part of experts and pundits produces remarkable results.
- Topic:
- Foreign Policy, History, Donald Trump, and Boris Yeltsin
- Political Geography:
- Russia, Eurasia, North America, and United States of America