The article deals with the memoirs of Natalia Apollinarievna Ivanova, married Logunova (1903–1972), a Russian journalist and writer who emigrated to the United States in the 1940s. The author analyzes the first part of her memoirs from the Columbia University Archives, covering her childhood and adolescence in pre-revolutionary Odessa. It is about the family of the memoirist, her gymnasium years, the first literary experiences, attempts to publish her first works. In addition, the historical events of the early twentieth century, which Logunova reflects on, and their impact on the life of the memoirist and her loved ones, are analyzed.

The article deals with the literary-critical texts of Andrey Bely (Boris Bugaev), in which he analyzed the work of Fyodor Dostoevsky. Bely wrote about the classic’s work throughout his life, but the article highlights only his late anthroposophical treatise “History of the Formation of a Self- Conscious Soul”. In that treatise the author, on the one hand, innovatively uses the anthroposophical methodology in literary criticism, and on the other hand, remains faithful to his understanding of Dostoevsky.

This article studies the interaction between Party power and the journal Crocodile in the struggle against right-wing bias in the Party. The interaction itself shows that Stalin’s ideological machine was struggling not only with the right-wing bias in the Party, but also in a broader sense – with all dissenters in Soviet society, with all those who did not share the transition from the new economic policy to military-communist methods of agricultural management, with those who were against the unleashing of a new civil war. The sketches of Crocodile magazine, which came out in huge circulations, provide a representative picture of the mental turn from the tolerance of the New Economic Policy Era to the intolerance of the new class struggle for the construction of socialism.

The article is focused on reception of the movie Elusive Avengers (1967) by E. Keosayan in the Soviet media of 1960s – 1970s. The film by E. Keosayan is a kind of remake of I. Perestiany’s Red Devils (1923) based on P. Blyakchin’s story published in 1921. The Perestiani movie by 1960 got the status of classic piece of Soviet cinematograph. Elusive Avengers appeared at the juncture of two epochs: Krushchev’s “thaw” was nearly over anyway yet the Soviet tanks had not rolled into Prague. The film met the mixed review from critics. The movie was released towards the 50 years jubilee of the revolution and it was really caught in the “gaping” between the party of the artists who wanted to speak and articulate their position and attitude with free language and the party of conservative guards which upheld conservative values, what naturally affected the language of description of cinematic reality.

The key aspects that the authors of cultural and educational programs focus on: thematic focus, selection of experts, program management, ways of visualizing content. The potential of such aspects is not fully realized. A number of programs of the TV channel “Russia-K”, in particular, the program “Observer”, it is advisable to expand the range of topics, invite new faces to the programs, add the number of video and audio materials – it would make the projects more relevant for the younger generation.

The article studies the issues of corporate (brand) journalism as a modern integrated approach to the formation of corporate content. As one of the brand-journalism tools, the article describes modern corporate television. Its use cases for the formation of a versatile media image of the organization are given.

The article focuses on local media, which turned out to be closely linked to a number of forms of participatory journalism. The question of the specific status of such means of communication in media systems is raised. Analysis of the nature of mass communication suggests that local media operate on the boundary of two types of communication – the interpersonal and mass, that determines their integration into the life of social groups and the ease with which laymen can enter the process of mass information exchange. It is suggested that local media have the properties of fractals, which allows them to adapt to changes in the social environment.

The article focuses on the edition evolution of V. Grossman’s “Good wishes to you!”. Based on the textological juxtaposition of the different editions – from the less complete ones of 1965 and 1967 to the most complete of 1988 – the researcher concludes that the publicistic basis of the essay remained unchanged – only the intensity of the publicistic judgments varied.

The article is focusing on an application of the theory of explosion to the processes of the late 80s – early 90s in the USSR in the journalistic texts of Lotman. In the last years of his life, which coincided with perestroika and the collapse of the USSR, Lotman often acted as a publicist. That was facilitated both by external circumstances (scientific fame and the popularity of the TV shows “Conversations about Russian culture”, which provided him with an unprecedentedly wide audience for a humanities scholar), and an internal need associated with the desire to understand rapidly changing circumstances. Lotman’s journalism is closely related to his scientific work. Thus, the theory of the explosion as a cultural phenomenon, which gradually took shape in his works during the 1980s and early 1990s, found, perhaps unexpectedly for the author himself, confirmation in the collapse of the USSR. Lotman’s reaction to those events was very complex. As a researcher, he was well aware of the nature and mechanisms of the cultural explosion, and in that sense, reality stimulated his scientific research. As a “common person” (that is how Lotman positioned himself), he was confused and alarmed by the unpredictability of the modern world, as can be seen from his letters. The desire to connect these two poles, to take a certain civic position, in which a sober understanding of current events merges with an emotional reaction to them, forced Lotman to turn to journalism. The scientist defined the pathos of his publicistic speeches as “restrained optimism”, balancing between hope and anxiety. Several layers are distinguished in those texts: autobiographical, historical, theoretical. The object of the study is the public speeches of the late Lotman, letters, autobiographical text.

The article deals with the investigation in case endings of toponyms with the suffixoid – поль in mediatexts in Russian. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe the grammatical forms of toponyms of the  derivational model in the oblique case combined in with appellatives. The task of the study included identifying preferred grammatical options and describing the conditions for such a choice. The materials of the newspaper subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus were used.