Demonization of Chechens by Russian media and its impact on the opinion of international society

Russo-Chechen relations have started long time ago and they always had some troubles. In nineteenth-century, Russian poets and novelists presented Chechnya in a romanticized way, portraying Chechen people both as lone and noble fighters, and as ‘savages’. So what has happened to an image of Chechens? Nowadays the only association which comes to people’s mind with Chechen is- “terrorist”. The aim of my dissertation is to analyze how and why Russian media did have played its role in changing people’s opinions toward Chechnya and Chechens and what stands behind it.