The evolution and influence of Russian and Belarusian propaganda during the Belarus presidential election and ensuing protests in 2020
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The process of interaction between the political regimes of Belarus and Russia in the critically important conditions of the presidential election and subsequent protests in 2020 calls into question the prospects for Belarusian democracy and national sovereignty. This report analyzes the role of state propaganda in this process by examining its most important components, including its mechanisms, evolution, and influence. Using qualitative framing and content analysis of media news stories in both countries before and after the election, as well as a focus group and surveys conducted after the election, the authors examine how Russian and Belarusian state-sponsored propaganda framed each other, how these post-election events affected propaganda in general, and how propaganda affected public opinion. They have identified changes in all three areas prior to and after the election as significant and ultimately determined by the geopolitical fight for influence in post-Soviet space.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it