Russian News Articles on Military Companies in the Central African Republic, 2016-2021

News articles from two Russian domestic news sources, Ria Novosti and TASS, published between 2016 and 2021. The dataset was compiled by Brittany Ham and harvested via the Texas Data Repository. Articles were collected using search terms for the Central African Republic (CAR) to achieve broad coverage.

Use Cases

• Analyze media framing and narrative trends based on the content of Russian news articles.
• Track mentions and discourse around Russian military companies based on the geographic focus on the Central African Republic.
• Conduct temporal analysis of news coverage based on the six-year time range from 2016 to 2021.
• Perform comparative media analysis based on the inclusion of articles from two distinct Russian news agencies.

Strengths

• Articles sourced from two major Russian news agencies, Ria Novosti and TASS.
• Covers a six-year time range from 2016 to 2021.
• Search strategy used general terms for the Central African Republic to aim for broad coverage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the selected Russian news outlets.

Provenance

Source

Texas Data Repository Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Articles gathered via Diffbot search using terms for the Central African Republic (CAR).

Time Range

2016 to 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2024-03-18 07:33:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central African Republic (focus of article content)