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Number of online news articles mentioning selected keyword combinations related to Western sanctions on Russia worldwide from 2022 to 2024

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Release date

February 2025

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022 to 2024

Supplementary notes

*Might include articles about export bans imposed by Russia in response to Western sanctions.

The mentions refer to the GDELT database which translates articles in 65 languages into English. The figures represent the total number of all articles GDELT monitored during that time interval which include the search term at least once.

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Which of the Western sanctions on Russia were the most covered in online news? Around news pieces contained the combination of keywords "Russia," "import," and "ban" in 2024. In that year, the number of online articles mentioning trade sanctions on Russia was significantly lower than in 2022 when the Russia-Ukraine war began. Furthermore, the news of several Russian banks being removed from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) was mentioned in around * online articles around the world over the course of 2022, though the coverage of that topic decreased significantly in 2023 and 2024. The SWIFT ban was one of numerous sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia in response to the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. To compare, Schengen visa restrictions for Russian tourists were mentioned in almost online articles in 2024.

Online news coverage of trade sanctions on Russia

Trade restrictions on Russia were widely covered by global online media in 2022 and 2023. Among the Western import bans of Russians goods, the restrictions on energy sources were the most covered, particularly because a significant portion of Russia's budget comes from oil and gas sales. In 2024, around and online articles mentioned import bans on Russian oil and gas, respectively.