US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House in Washington. Archival photoMOSCOW, January 20 During the year of Joe Biden's presidency, the Russians most of all remember the American leader's attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a Brand Analytics study for RIA Novosti. The twentieth of January 2022 is coming to an end first year of Biden's presidency. Brand Analytics analyzed which events related to the American president were most discussed by users in Russian-language social media, and which of them were paid the most attention by journalists.
"For Russians, the most exciting was Biden's scandalous interview, in which, when asked by a journalist whether he considers President Putin a murderer, he answered in the affirmative. The historic phrase was followed by Putin's quick and easy response, which defuses such an undiplomatic situation. The interview was discussed in social networks more than 744 thousand times within a week", the study says.
Emotional discussions in Russian-language social networks were caused by the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, and the word «Taliban» even entered the top ten most discussed by Russians in 2021. Almost 200,000 messages and user comments were devoted to this topic in just a week, at the time the withdrawal of troops was completed, the authors of the study note.Biden threatened Russia with «never seen» sanctions «Journalists paid the most attention to the first face-to-face meeting of the presidents in Geneva, where Putin and Biden not only managed to make peace after the scandal, but also agreed on the return of ambassadors and, in general, sent a signal to the world that Russia and the United States can still have a constructive dialogue, and the world is not returning to the Cold War. Social media users mentioned the meeting in more than 500,000 messages during the week,» the authors of the study added. According to analysts, the Russians also closely followed the results of Biden's first hundred days in office. President, especially with regard to the return of the United States to international agreements and organizations — WHO, the Paris climate agreement, from which the previous President Donald Trump withdrew. The Russians also discussed in social networks, in particular, the extension of the US START-3 treaty with Russia until 2026 of the year. It is noted that the Russians spoke about the first 100 days of Biden's presidency in social networks almost 370 thousand times during the week. his mental stateThe talks between Putin and Biden via video link on December 7, during which the presidents of the two countries discussed the situation around Ukraine, which was circulated in the American media, also aroused the interest of users. The topic of negotiations was voiced in messages on social networks more than 250 thousand times during the week, the study notes. The rating of events is based on the number of discussions based on an analysis of more than 25 billion messages published on Russian-language social media in 2021. In total, Russian-language social media users mentioned Biden more than 9 million times in the past year, and Russian journalists wrote about the American president almost 2 million times over the same period. .jpg» />Biden made the same mistake for the third time