Anna Ryzhova

Since July 2020

• Research Associate and Doctoral Student at the Chair of Political Communication with a Focus on Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Region within the ERC Consolidator Grant Research Group: The Consequences of the Internet for Russia's Informational Influence Abroad (RUSINFORM) with Prof. Dr. Florian Töpfl at the University of Passau

November 2018 to February 2019

• International Research Fellow at the Caucasus Resource Research Center (CRRC-Armenia) in Yerevan, Armenia
• Participation in the research project Study on Knowledge of Foreign Languages in Armenia in grant management and outreach communication activities

2017 to 2019

• Master's studies in Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• Master's thesis: Strategic narratives and public diplomacy in the Russian news media portrayal of Sweden: case of Russia Today
• University of Gothenburg Study Scholarship
• Adlerbert Foundation Scholarship

2010 to 2015

• Bachelor's studies in Asian Studies at the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
• Bachelor's thesis: The course of the first Indochina war as reflected in American, French, Vietnamese and Russian historiography
• Selected among students across Russia to study at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Vietnam from 2012 to 2013 with a full scholarship

2024

• Kravets, D., Beseler, A., Toepfl, F., & Ryzhova, A. (2024). The Kremlin-Controlled Search Engine Yandex as a Tool of Foreign Propaganda.Russian Analytical Digest, 313, 11–15. https://css.ethz.ch/en/publications/rad/rad-all-issues-and-articles/details.html?id=/n/o/3/1/no_313_russian_foreign_propaganda_in_occ

• Ryzhova, A., & Toepfl, F. (2024). The Consequences of Evidence- Versus Non-Evidence-Based Understandings of the “Truth”: How Russian Speakers in Germany Negotiate Trust in Their Transnational News Environments. The International Journal of Press/Politics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241257872

2023

• Glazunova, S. & Ryzhova, A. & Bruns, A. & Montaña-Niño, S. X. & Beseler, A. & Dehghan, E. (2023). A platform policy implementation audit of actions against Russia’s state-controlled media. Internet Policy Review, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.14763/2023.2.1711 
   
• Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., Toepfl, F., & Beseler, A. (2023). Different platforms, different plots? The Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex as a resource for Russia’s informational influence in Belarus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231157845
   
• Toepfl, F., Ryzhova, A., Kravets, D., & Beseler, A. (2023). Googling in Russian Abroad: How Kremlin-Affiliated Websites Contribute to the Visibility of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Search Results. International Journal Of Communication, 17, 1126–1146.
  https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19423/4042

2022

• Ryzhova, A. (2022). Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires. Journalism. Advance online publication. 
  https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221130557
   
• Toepfl, F., Kravets, D., Ryzhova, A., & Beseler, A. (2023). Who are the plotters behind the pandemic? Comparing Covid-19 conspiracy theories in Google search results across five key target countries of Russia’s foreign communication. Information, Communication & Society, 26(10), 2033-2051. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2065213

2024

• Ryzhova, A. & Toepfl, F. 2024. “Being a journalist? It's very dangerous both there and here”: How russian speaking migrants deploy authoritarian folk theories about news media literacy to make sense of democratic news environments [Conference presentation]. ECREA 2024, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 24–27.

2023

• Glazunova, S., Ryzhova, A., Bruns, A., Montaña-Niño, S., Beseler, A., & Dehghan, E. (2023). Deplatforming RT and Sputnik during the Russia-Ukraine war: A policy implementation audit in 10 countries. Presentation at the annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 25- 29 May, Toronto, Canada.

2022

• Toepfl, F., Ryzhova, A., Kravets, D., & Beseler, A. B. (2022). How misinformation as accessed through Google varies with input language and geolocation: A comparison of Covid-19 conspiracy narratives retrieved from five countries in response to Russian- versus English-language queries. Presentation at the ICA 2022, 26-20 of May, Paris, France

2021

• Ryzhova, A. (2021). Transnational News Repertoires in times of Conflict: How Russian Speakers in Germany Navigate News Media Landscapes. Annual Aleksanteri Conference, 27-29 October 2021, Helsinki, Finland
• Ryzhova, A. (2021). Strategic narratives and public diplomacy in the Russian news media portrayal of Sweden: the case of Russia Today. Presentation at the Fifth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 6th to 8th of June, Tartu, Estonia.

2019

• Ryzhova, A. (2019). Fostering new Russian identity: How “Eurasianism” influenced rhetoric and policy of Vladimir Putin during the third presidential term (2012-2018). Presentation at the Fourth Annual Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies, 10th to 11th of June, Tartu, Estonia.