期刊名称：Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies
电子版ISSN：2562-8429
出版年度：2021
卷号：14
期号：1
页码：55-78
DOI：10.22215/cjers.v14i1.2667
出版社：Centre for European Studies
摘要：In 2019, Canada and Russia both went through election campaigns; Russia held regional and municipal elections in September, while Canadians voted at the federal level in October. This article examines cross-national media coverage during the two election campaigns in order to provide a snapshot of the positions and perceptions each country has about the other’s electoral and political processes. The purpose is to identify and explain over-arching narratives that frame each country’s media discourse about the other, as media from the two countries were actively involved in cross-commenting about the situation on the ground as the election campaigns took place and after results were reported. However, the content of Canadian and Russian reporting differs greatly, in part because of the different levels at which the elections occurred, but more importantly due to differences in underlying assumptions and biases on both sides. While these differing narratives remain in place, it is unlikely that media, and by extension, public opinion about the other country will shift.
其他摘要：In 2019, Canada and Russia went through election campaigns in their respective countries. While Canada voted at the federal level, Russia held regional and municipal elections, and therefore the scale and outcome of these two campaigns cannot be compared per se. Yet shifting a focus to media coverage, this paper explores Canada-Russia relations at a given moment in time, including the extent to which disinformation took place on either side. The two countries were actively involved in cross-commenting about the situation on the ground. Russian English-language media outlets were visibly more anti-Trudeau in nature in their Canadian election coverage, while Canadian authorities called on their Russiancounterparts to respect freedoms of assembly during pre-election opposition rallies in Moscow. However, in a modern highly interconnected world, where should the border between news reporting/tweeting and an attempt to interfere in elections be located; and how do these efforts advance each country’s interests?
