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2012, even if the coverage of events differs slightly across different channels. Russian journalists do not usually receive specific instructions on what to say and how to say it, but have to possess the ability to report the broad strategies of the Kremlin. Over the course of their two-year study, Hutching and Tolz conclude that Russian TV reports have increasingly grown more hostile toward ethnic, national, and religious minorities in Russia. In the end, their conclusion that official discourse has proven to be “neither coherent nor univocal” but has nevertheless contributed mightily to the “public sense of victimhood” (250) that in turn fosters an increasingly strong ethnic nationalism should make us all worry.