A Longitudinal, Multinational, and Multilingual Corpus of News Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
arXiv cs.CL / 3/16/2026
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Key Points
- The DNIPRO corpus collects 246K news articles about the Russo-Ukrainian war (Feb 2022 – Aug 2024) across eleven outlets in five nation-states and three languages.
- It includes metadata and human-evaluated annotations for stance, sentiment, and topical framing to enable systematic analysis of competing geopolitical narratives.
- The dataset supports empirical studies of narrative evolution, cross-lingual information flow, and detection of implicit contradictions in fragmented information ecosystems.
- Exploratory findings show outlets construct divergent attributions and topical selections, illustrating narrative divergence without directly refuting opposing narratives.



