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Questioning the authenticity of Russian multiparty, we conducted a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the texts of political parties.


Original publication: https://read.infometer.org/clone



Team: Viacheslav Romanov (analysis, visualizaton, web-design), Mikhail Karyagin (concept, analysis, texts), Mikko Pitkänen (script), Infometer team (hackathon)


Instruments: Tilda.cc, Tableau Public, Microsoft Word, Excel, Antiplagiat.ru


Content:
The content of a study is embodied in a long read with interactive infographics. The data source was texts of the main and election programs of 77 Russian political parties. We count mentions of key topics and represented them as word clouds, we checked the texts for plagiarism. We also conducted a hackathon in nature, where we read all the programs and revealed the most ridiculous fragments to present them as is.


Findings:
Excessively short, populist or absurd party programs, as well as direct literal text borrowings in the programs have been discovered. The study proved that most parties are dummies whose programs were not intended to make sense.


Achievements:
The total number of views of publications and infographics is more than 15,000