President Medvedev with FSB director Bortnikov on lifting the counter-terrorist operation regime in Chechnya (Gorki, 27 March 2009)
Dmitry Medvedev at left and Alexander Bortnikov at right sit facing each other across a green-topped desk in a wood-panelled office, with a Russian tricolour and the presidential standard behind them. The tell is the vocabulary of the accompanying Kremlin item, where a decade of armed conflict is called a 'counter-terrorist operation regime' that can now be 'lifted'.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- March 27, 2009
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Medvedev Government
- Leader
- Dmitry Medvedev
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Reassure
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- Second Chechen War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- President of Russia (kremlin.ru), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, licence stated on the site)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0.
Text on the object
Checked for printed text: none found
No printed or legible text on this object (the wording is in the Kremlin item and is quoted in the notes).
