Ruské informační strategie v reakci na mediální sankce Evropské unie

The paper “Russia’s Information Strategy in Response to European Union Media Sanctions” examines the spread of pro-Russian narratives on Facebook. Using Entman’s analysis and the Political Compass framework, it examines a sample of posts by Czech users that interpret geopolitical events related to the war in Ukraine from 2023 to 2025. The aim is to contribute to the debate on the nature and targeting of pro-Russian narratives using specific Czech data. This study addresses two research questions: which narrative templates are most frequently used in the posts to interpret geopolitical events, and whether these posts consistently target specific segments of the political compass or whether there is a prevalence of blanket information overload intended to reduce the audience’s ability to orient themselves. In the analyzed sample, the most frequently recurring templates were the delegitimization of Ukraine and President Zelenskyy, the glorification of a strong leader, and the questioning of the credibility of the Czech media. Twelve of the twenty posts targeted the conservative right; eight remained broad in scope; and the remaining three quadrants of the political spectrum were not addressed. The results suggest that ideological targeting and blanket saturation can simultaneously function as two layers of the same “sharp power.” Given the purposeful selection and small sample size, the findings apply exclusively to the analyzed dataset and cannot be generalized.