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Corruption framing splits between two cohorts who often cover the same investigations with opposite emphasis. Reform-progress framing (Ukrainian reformist press + Western mainstream + EU policy outlets) treats ongoing investigations as evidence that Ukrainian institutions are working as intended under wartime stress, that anti-corruption infrastructure built since 2014 is functioning, and that prosecutions of senior officials prove independence from the Presidential Office. Endemic-corruption framing (Russian state press + Western contrarian + Global South) treats the same investigations as confirmation that the Zelensky inner circle is systemically corrupt, that Western aid is being stolen at scale, that the regime is authoritarian, and that EU/NATO accession on this institutional basis is unrealistic.
Each card below is one coalition with its own frame on the same contested phenomenon.
Weekly attributed-headline count per narrative. Visual asymmetry is signal: some coalitions dominate the vocabulary, others stay sporadic.
Loaded vocabulary per coalition and recent headlines under each frame.
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Reform-progress framing (Ukrainian reformist press + Western mainstream + EU policy outlets) treats ongoing corruption investigations as evidence that Ukrainian anti-corruption infrastructure built since 2014 is functioning under wartime stress. Coverage tracks NABU, SAP, HACC, and NACP investigations of senior officials including Presidential Office personnel, defense procurement scandals, and regional governors. Vocabulary: anti-corruption infrastructure, institutional independence, reform progress, EU conditionality met, IMF benchmark, transparency, accountability, audit. Coverage frames Western audit demands as legitimate and constructive, presents prosecutions of senior officials as proof of independence from the Presidential Office, and contextualises scandals within the broader institutional transformation since 2014. Prescription: sustain institutional protection from political interference; maintain Western conditionality leverage; complete judicial reform; continue prosecuting irrespective of rank.
Endemic-corruption framing (Russian state press + Western contrarian + Global South + some Hungarian-aligned EU) treats the same investigations and scandals as confirmation that the Zelensky inner circle is systemically corrupt, that Western aid is being stolen at scale through defense procurement, that the regime is increasingly authoritarian (banned opposition parties, restricted media, cancelled elections, Yermak-centred power concentration), and that EU/NATO accession on this institutional basis is unrealistic. Vocabulary: endemic corruption, regime corruption, stolen aid, defense procurement scandal, Yermak inner circle, authoritarian regime, cancelled elections, banned opposition, Western blind eye. Coverage uses the same anti-corruption agency investigations as evidence of scale, frames prosecutions as theatrical or selective, and emphasises Western media protection of the regime. Prescription: condition or halt aid pending genuine accountability; recognise that the regime cannot deliver promised reforms; reject any settlement that consolidates the current Kyiv leadership.