This article examines how Russian geostrategic communication is entangled in global gender politics. The aim is to understand the resonance of disinformation in relation to culturalized, ethnicized and racialized narratives of gender, or “gendered boundarymaking.” The analysis is based on focus group discussions with Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian individuals, asked to share their impressions of news articles from the Russian media agency Sputnik, which all depicted Sweden as a warning example of multiculturalism and feminism gone “too far.” In the discussions, participants opposed a gender equal “self” to a patriarchal immigrant “other,” narrated Sweden as a country exceptionally concerned with gender, and tapped into competing temporalities of progress and decline. The article contributes to research on geostrategic communication by showing how disinformation efforts draw upon gendered national identities and debates about gender and immigration. More importantly, the article demonstrates that such gendered boundarymaking shapes audiences’ interpretations in crucial ways. Rather than viewing disinformation only from a state-centered lens of national security, in isolation from racism, Islamophobia, anti-feminism, and queerphobia within Western societies, research should acknowledge the interconnections between geostrategic communication and everyday boundarymaking. This will be pivotal to developing counterstrategies to disinformation, whether Russian or homegrown.

本文考察了俄罗斯地缘战略交流如何与全球性别政治纠缠不清。目的是了解与文化化、种族化和种族化的性别叙事或“性别边界制定”相关的虚假信息的共鸣。该分析基于与瑞典、丹麦和挪威个人的焦点小组讨论，他们被要求分享他们对俄罗斯媒体机构 Sputnik 新闻文章的印象，这些文章都将瑞典描述为多元文化主义和女权主义“走得太远”的警告例子。在讨论中，参与者反对性别平等的“自我”与重男轻女的移民“他者”，将瑞典描述为一个特别关注性别的国家，并利用相互竞争的进步和衰退时间。这篇文章通过展示虚假信息工作如何利用性别化的国家身份以及关于性别和移民的辩论，为地缘战略传播的研究做出了贡献。更重要的是，这篇文章表明，这种性别化的边界塑造以关键的方式塑造了观众的解释。研究不应仅从以国家为中心的国家安全视角看待虚假信息，与西方社会中的种族主义、仇视伊斯兰教、反女权主义和同性恋恐惧症隔离开来，研究应该承认地缘战略交流与日常边界制定之间的相互联系。这对于制定针对虚假信息的对策至关重要，无论是俄罗斯人还是本土人。这篇文章表明，这种性别化的边界塑造以关键的方式塑造了观众的解释。研究不应仅从以国家为中心的国家安全视角看待虚假信息，与西方社会中的种族主义、仇视伊斯兰教、反女权主义和同性恋恐惧症隔离开来，研究应该承认地缘战略交流与日常边界制定之间的相互联系。这对于制定针对虚假信息的对策至关重要，无论是俄罗斯人还是本土人。这篇文章表明，这种性别化的边界塑造以关键的方式塑造了观众的解释。研究不应仅从以国家为中心的国家安全视角看待虚假信息，与西方社会中的种族主义、仇视伊斯兰教、反女权主义和同性恋恐惧症隔离开来，研究应该承认地缘战略交流与日常边界制定之间的相互联系。这对于制定针对虚假信息的对策至关重要，无论是俄罗斯人还是本土人。研究应该承认地缘战略交流和日常边界制定之间的相互联系。这对于制定针对虚假信息的对策至关重要，无论是俄罗斯人还是本土人。研究应该承认地缘战略交流和日常边界制定之间的相互联系。这对于制定针对虚假信息的对策至关重要，无论是俄罗斯人还是本土人。