The Impact of International Sanctions on Russia’s Media Economy
The Impact of International Sanctions on Russia’s Media Economy
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国际制裁对俄罗斯媒体经济的影响
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2017
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I. Kiriya
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作者：
I. Kiriya
为了惩罚俄罗斯从乌克兰吞并克里米亚，美国和欧盟对与克里姆林宫有密切关系的俄罗斯国有企业和个人实施了一系列经济制裁。本文的目的是研究与当前俄罗斯最大媒体帝国（其中大多数与克里姆林宫关系密切）手中的媒体资产和收入整合过程相关的制裁。它质疑制裁是否达到了破坏俄罗斯国内经济稳定的预期目标，或者是否使主要的国家联盟媒体公司受益。该研究得出的主要结论是，国际制裁以与其意图相反的方式从根本上改变了俄罗斯媒体的结构。制裁无意中有利于最大的参与者，而损害了较小的参与者，保护了与国家结盟的媒体及其财务收入。在制裁的环境下，与克里姆林宫关系密切的媒体大亨利用其在议会的游说能力来获取优势，主要是在广告方面。因此，规模较小的竞争对手被挤出市场，其股份在少数主要利益相关者之间重新分配。
To punish Russia for the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the United States and the European Union introduced a set of economic sanctions against Russian state companies and individuals closely affiliated with the Kremlin. The goal of this article is to look at the sanctions in relation to the process of the current consolidation of media assets and revenues in the hands of Russia’s biggest media empires, most of whom are close to the Kremlin. It questions whether the sanctions achieved the intended goal of undermining economic stability inside Russia or if, rather, they benefitted major state-aligned media corporations.The main conclusion drawn from the study is that the international sanctions have radically changed the structure of Russia’s media in a manner contrary to their intention. The sanctions unwittingly favored the biggest players to the detriment of the smaller, protecting state-aligned media and their financial incomes. In the climate of sanctions, media tycoons close to the Kremlin used their lobbying capacity in parliament to acquire advantages, primarily in terms of advertisement. Thus, smaller competitors were pushed out of the market and their shares were redistributed among a few major stakeholders.