ABSTRACT
The Russian mass media have thereby made a crucial contribution to the consolidation of Vladimir Putin's regime by propagating conformist, pro-Kremlin ideas and marginalising rival views on Russian politics. This chapter looks at two particular aspects of the cooperation between the Russian media and the far right and discusses why this cooperation became needed in the first place. It examines how mainstream Russian media engage with far-right politicians, activists and publicists, and also looks at the ideas and beliefs they articulate to justify the logic and direction of Russian foreign policy and to subvert the liberal-democratic consensus in the West. The chapter explores the structural relations between Russian media and certain media initiatives of the European far right. Gilles Arnaud referred to ProRussia.TV and Agence2Presse as agencies of 're-information'. At the end of 2013, Putin ordered establishing an international information agency Rossiya Segodnya 'to provide information on Russian state policy and Russian life and society for audiences abroad'.
