The European prohibition of Russian media:
An investigation of the recent biopolitical development in European governmentality

On March 1st, 2022, it was decided by the European Union to enact Council Regulation 2022/350 which prohibited certain Russian media outlets in the European Union. It was declared that these media outlets posed a harmful threat to European society, thus being a societal risk, which had to be resolved.

This paper concludes that the European Union discursively have securitized Russian media, which then have enabled an increasing new form of European biopolitical governmentality. This reinforced governmentality now account certain knowledge being an existential threat to the health of the social body.

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