Limitless Threat, Limited Choices?: Party Messages and News Framing in the 2003 and 2004 Russian Elections

Abstract

As the earlier chapters of this book have discussed, 9/11 was an event with immense international and domestic political consequences for the United States. For the Russian Federation, the 9/11 attacks were a distant tragedy. For Russians, the threat of terrorism is both more ongoing and domestic in nature. There have been multiple terrorist attacks linked to Chechen terrorists. While none of them have reached the scale of 9/11, a series of deadly attacks over the past decade have continually reinforced terrorist fears in the country.