She holds a Bachelor's Degree from the St. Petersburg State University. She received a Gothenburg Study scholarship and subsequently enrolled at the University of Gothenburg for the Master's programme in Global Studies. In her Master's thesis, Anna employed qualitative content analysis to identify the themes and actors in the coverage of Sweden on the website of RT English, a popular platform of Russian foreign communication.
Anna's research interests focus on political communication, with a special emphasis on the mechanisms of foreign influence through mass media communication on the audiences abroad. The concept of strategic narratives and the mechanisms of narrative reception are of special interest for Anna and she takes great interest in traditional methods of social science research, especially qualitative methods, to conduct her research. You can read more about Anna Ryzhova here.