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Hostile Russian coverage of Ukraine has declined since early December, following a steep rise in the months before, according to a study of almost 19 million online items with Russia's ".ru" domain name by Semantic Visions, a Prague-based data analytics company that offers risk assessment to corporations.

The pattern is almost identical to last spring. In that case, negative Russian media sentiment toward the nation's ex-Soviet neighbor peaked shortly before the government announced in late April that it was ending another major build-up of forces.

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