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при Президенте Российской Федерации<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>15</day><month>03</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>16</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>77</fpage><lpage>95</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Вилисов М.В., Биктимерова Л.И., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Вилисов М.В., Биктимерова Л.И.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Vilisov M.V., Biktimerova L.I.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/673">https://www.interanalytics.org/jour/article/view/673</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье на примере медийного и аналитического освещения президентских выборов в России в 2024 г. показаны подходы СМИ и аналитических центров Германии и Италии к собственному публичному позиционированию и воздействию на различные целевые аудитории в условиях геополитической конфронтации и смены мирового порядка. Приняв идею о неизбежной фрагментации мира и оказавшись в идейном вакууме, возникшем из-за резкого роста конфликтности в отношениях Германии, Италии, ЕС и Запада в целом – с Россией, аналитические центры оказались перед выбором: прибегнуть к политизации своей деятельности под влиянием контекста или сохранить более сдержанную и объективную модальность работы. Обе стратегии дают этим организациям возможность сберечь или приумножить влияние – с помощью механизмов «жесткой» или «мягкой» силы, а также «идеационной власти» – при определенном позиционировании аналитических центров в информационном пространстве своих государств. Однако те же стратегии сопряжены с неизбежными потерями влияния при ином подходе «мозговых центров» к формированию своего имиджа в обществ. При этом ведущие аналитические центры Италии и Германии, специализирующиеся в области внешней политики, пока имеют возможность действовать в нейтральной модальности, что сохраняет для них перспективу конструктивного взаимодействия с российским экспертным сообществом в случае возобновления политического диалога с Россией.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The case study of media and analytical coverage of the 2024 presidential elections in Russia shows the approaches taken by the media and think tanks in Germany and Italy towards their public positioning and influence on various target audiences amid geopolitical confrontation and a changing world order. Media coverage of the Russian elections was focused mainly on the domestic audience and exhibited some features of propaganda, which aligns with the political context. In their turn, think tanks were in a more difficult situation. Having accepted the idea of the inevitable fragmentation of the world and facing an ideological vacuum, which arose amid worsening relations between Germany, Italy, the EU and the West on the one side and Russia on the other, think tanks had to make a choice between politicizing their activities under the influence of the context or maintaining a previous relatively moderate attitude. Both strategies give these organizations the opportunity to preserve or increase their influence – through the mechanisms of “hard” or “soft” power, as well as “ideological power” – with a certain positioning of think tanks in the information space of their states. However, the same strategies are associated with the inevitable loss of influence with a different approach of “think tanks” to shaping their public images. Some German think tanks have politicized their activities, which is explained by several factors. As a result, they were identified by the Russian authorities as “undesirable organizations,” which significantly limited their own “soft power” in relation to the Russian audience, effectively making it impossible to have any dialogue with the Russian side. At the same time, leading Italian and German think tanks which deal with foreign affairs still retain the opportunity to act in a neutral modality, preserving the possibility of constructive interaction with Russia’s expert community if a Russo–Western political dialogue begins.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>аналитический центр</kwd><kwd>идеационная власть</kwd><kwd>мягкая сила</kwd><kwd>пропаганда</kwd><kwd>стратегическая коммуникация</kwd><kwd>фрейминг</kwd><kwd>дискурсивный анализ</kwd><kwd>политизация аналитики</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>think tank</kwd><kwd>soft power</kwd><kwd>ideational power</kwd><kwd>propaganda</kwd><kwd>strategic communication</kwd><kwd>framing</kwd><kwd>critical discourse analysis</kwd><kwd>politicization of expertise</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement>Авторы благодарят д.полит.н., профессора А.И. Никитина за продуктивные обсуждения в рамках совместного исследовательского проекта, а также А.С. Сулакшину за помощь в сборе материалов СМИ.</funding-statement></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement>The authors express their gratitude to PhD (Polit.) Alexander I. Nikitin for a fruitful exchange of opinion within joint research and Alena S. Sulakshina for her contributition to the database of think tank publications.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Вилисов, М.В. «Поля идей» для научной дипломатии в контексте российского «поворота на Восток» // Управление и политика. 2023. Т. 2. № 3. 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