Putin pretends to care for Eastern Ukraine, which was under-expressed in Soviet Newsreel propaganda! Detail from Figure 1 in Tamm, Mikhail V., Mila Oiva, Ksenia D. Mukhina, Mark Mets, and Maximilian Schich. "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data." Nature Cities (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00380-1 "Significantly over- and underrepresented cities, insignificantly over- and underrepresented cities and cities which are mentioned roughly as expected are shown with cyan, red, grey-cyan, grey-pink and grey circles, respectively. Cities in Moscow and Donbas regions are shown in smaller circles to reduce their overlap."
"Here we measured geographical biases in the representation of cities in a large Soviet news-media corpus..."
@cudanlab.bsky.social in #NatureCities @nature.com
#MikhailTamm, @mila-oiva.bsky.social, #KseniaMukhina,
@metsmark.bsky.social & @schichmax.bsky.social
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