Scholars' Attention to Ukraine: the Same Problems as in the Mass Media

Abstract

There are two main problems with scholarly research on Ukraine, and they are roughly the same as the problems with the attention to our country from the mainstream world media. The first of these is common to most other nonleading countries: most publications remember them only when something extraordinary happens there. For example, the largest war in Europe since World War II. The second problem is more specific: Russian strategic narratives, or, in other words, Russian propaganda, can infiltrate scientific articles. After all, scientific journals are also media. They disseminate information about the real world, and therefore they can also set an agenda or present one’s own interpretation of events.