Media coverage of the Crimean referendum in the biggest Spanish newspapers La Vanguardia, El País, and El Mundo

Gorbach, Romaniia

Media coverage of the Crimean referendum in the biggest Spanish newspapers La Vanguardia, El País, and El Mundo

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Gorbach, R. Media coverage of the Crimean referendum in the biggest Spanish newspapers La Vanguardia, El País, and El Mundo. 2020. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/48048

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Abstract

Ideological positioning of media resources is, first of all, an opportunity to understand how editorials relate to conflict processes, especially if we are talking about international conflicts. For the last six years, Ukraine has been in permanent military conflict with Russian-backed military groups. The key point of this confrontation was the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014. This event has been recognized by the international community as the biggest crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. Also, it was a big challenge for international media to cover this conflict because of political and ideological influence. This research report determines the predominant media frames used during the referendum in Crimea. It presents the results of a qualitative and quantitative analysis of articles published one week before referendum in Crimea and one week after in the biggest Spanish newspapers (La Vanguardia, El País and El Mundo) to study each newspaper’s treatment of Ukrainian conflict as a part of global international agenda- setting.