President Putin's televised address after the Beslan school siege (Moscow, 4 September 2004)
Vladimir Putin, in a dark suit and tie, looks straight into the camera against dark panelling, with a Russian tricolour at the right edge of the frame. The tell is the address itself, whose headline sentence describes the attacks as 'direct intervention of international terror against Russia' and 'a total, cruel, full-scale war', asking viewers to mobilise 'in the face of this common danger'.
Propaganda techniques used in this broadcast
- Date
- September 4, 2004
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), broadcast on Russian state television
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Broadcast
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Security and surveillance, War and the military
- Event
- Second Chechen War
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- 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 address is spoken; the text is quoted in the notes).
