The Economist Article Rating

Is Putin's brainwashing of Ukrainians into Russians even a crime?

Feb 21, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Another route might run through the right to preserve cultural, religious and political identity, which is part of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Russia is a party.
49% : When I visit Ukraine as part of my work for the Reckoning Project, an that documents, publicises and builds cases of war crimes, Ukrainian officials and activists frequently use the term "cultural genocide".
46% : Shaheed doesn't mention Ukraine in the report, but he does highlight other cases: Ethiopian "rehabilitation camps" where political prisoners are "forced to endure political indoctrination, poor living conditions and agonising physical activities with the purported goal of altering their thoughts"; and the detention of ethnic Uyghurs in "re-education" camps in China's Xinjiang region, which the Chinese government uses in order, in its own words, to "wash brains" and "cleanse hearts" of what it terms "extreme religious ideologies".
44% : States that support Ukraine can take countermeasures such as economic sanctions for breaches of these fundamental rights.
42% : Religious freedom is under threat too.
38% : Lemkin's original definition of genocide encompassed the "disintegration of the political and social institutions of culture, language, national feelings [and] religion", as well as physical extermination - with the ultimate intention of destroying entire national groups.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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