Reading rule. These charts measure the language of the Luhansk occupation press as an object of study. Counts are Russian-propaganda keyword frequencies, attributed to those outlets and not endorsed; a high count marks editorial emphasis, not truth.
Luhansk occupation press: theme intensity
How occupation themes rise and fall across the Luganmedia holding, 2023–2026. Companion to the issue index and the curated excerpts.
Public-safe derived layer. Charts are built from theme keyword counts and issue metadata; the newspaper texts and PDFs are not published.
Provenance: newspaper title list from Detector Media (10 March 2025) and the Centre for Information Resilience mapping; issue-level and theme data from our own collection run (July 2026); the 2023 to 2025 back-catalogue was recovered from the Internet Archive.
Mean keyword hits per page, per issue, by month. Click a theme in the legend to hide or isolate it. Choose a town to see one paper’s pattern. Gaps mark months with no issues collected.
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2. Theme share across the whole corpus
Total keyword hits per theme across all 1,102 issues. Loyalty-to-Moscow dwarfs every other theme.
3. Themes by publication
Mean keyword hits per page for each theme, paper by paper. Darker means the theme runs denser in that paper. Sorted by number of issues collected; hover a cell for the exact figure.
Cell = mean hits per page across that paper’s issues. The strong, near-uniform Loyalty column is the point: the same priorities in every town.
4. Issues collected over time
Number of issues per month across all papers. The 2023 to 2025 back-catalogue was recovered from the Internet Archive after the holding purged it; recent months are what the site still hosts.
5. Theme mix by publication
Each paper’s coverage as a share of its own theme keywords (100% stacked). This shows composition, not volume: what each paper spends its column-inches on. The mix is strikingly similar paper to paper.
6. Rising vs falling themes
How each theme’s intensity (mean hits per page) shifted from 2024 to 2026. Green climbed, red faded.
2024 on the left, 2026 on the right; each line is one theme, numbers are mean hits per page.