‘Russian Spring’ or ‘Spring Betrayal’? The Media as a Mirror of Putin’s Evolving Strategy in Ukraine

The authors are grateful to Yulia Netesova, Katerina Tertytchnaya and Elena Samarsky for their help with data gathering and analysis. We would also like to thank the editor of Europe-Asia Studies and the anonymous referees for their very useful comments and suggestions for improving the article. Tomila Lankina gratefully acknowledges generous funding from the British Academy, which awarded her a Mid-career Fellowship; and from the LSE’s International Relations Department. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Workshop on Citizen Preferences, Political Mobilisation, Institutional Change, and Regime Stability in Russia and Ukraine post-Donbas, held at the Department of International Relations and the Centre for International Studies, LSE, on 10 June 2016; and the PONARS Eurasia Conference on Rethinking Russia Media Strategy and Influence held in Washington, DC, 28–29 April 2017. We are grateful to the participants of these events for their comments on the article. All errors are of course solely our own.