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Kompromat Goes Global?: Assessing a Russian Media Tool in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2017

Sarah Oates
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Abstract

The Russian and American media spheres converged to an unprecedented degree during the 2016 US presidential elections when reports of a possible dossier on Donald Trump emerged. This article considers the degree to which the media tactic of kompromat, which is the Russian abbreviation for “compromising material,” can infiltrate the US media ecology.

Type
Critical Forum: Russian Influence in 2016 US Presidential Election
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Slavic Review , Volume 76 , Supplement S1 , August 2017 , pp. S57 - S65
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2017 

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