The pragmatic features of V. Shalamov’s protest letter (February1972, “Literaturnaya gazeta”) are analyzed. Researching some emigrant press publications relating to the letter the authors identify the reasons of Shalamov being reproached by his friends and acquaintances, and his reputation being disrupted.

The following piece is targeted at the analysis of British and American reviews of 1967 relating to S. Alliluyeva’s “Twenty letters to a friend” and E. Ginzburg’s “Into the whirlwind” (published in English the same year in the West). The researcher restores some patterns of the evaluation of the books and concludes that both of them were regarded as constituent elements of the organic whole because of their both carrying some highly valuable information about Stalin’s USSR. The books were also interpreted as linked since Ginzburg’s memoires depicted prison life of the Soviet Union, and Alliluyeva’s evidence highlighted Soviet life from the inside.

The article covers the history of support lent by US intelligence agencies to Russian émigré organizations and enterprises in the beginning of the 1950s. In particular, it describes the role of George F. Kennan in organizing the support for Chekhov Publishing House of the East European Fund and «The New Review». Using the ideas, which were articulated by George Kennan in an article published in «The New Review», it shows the concept of cooperation with Russian émigré community applied by the US government. The author concludes that the only mean of affecting the Soviet political regime chosen by the US government under the policy of “Containment” conditions was an ideological struggle, in which the key role was given to Russian post-revolutionary émigrés in the USA.

Article is dedicated to a controversy between the editors of magazines “Blagonamerennyi” and «Moscow Telegraph» - A.E. Izmaylov and N.A. Polevoy. The reasons for the beginning of that controversy was the publication in “Blagonamerennyi” of critical material to the address of “Moscow Telegraph”, that led to the publication of polemical materials by both magazines. The controversy continued until the last issues of “Blagonamerennyi”.

The article deals with the publication of the journal of F.M. and M.M. Dostoevsky “Vremya” in which authors argue with other journals on the rights of women in Russia. The authors express the need to discuss women’s issues and recognize that it is a cause of contention among many progressive publications.

The researcher analyzes the critical articles and publications of 1860s in which there is a review of the novel “What is to be done?”. Based on these sources different opinions around the novel and Nikolai Chernyshevsky as a writer are grouped and differentiated. Question is raised: how one of the most popular and influential novels of that period could have caused so many negative reviews.

This article is about the work of journalists in the early 1920s in Oprodkomgub (Odessa province special military Commission for supplying the Red Army with food). Oprodkomgub’s archival funds allow to clarify the biographical data of the brightest representatives of the Odessa press, to bridge missing links in the picture of the Odessa literary life in the first years of Soviet power.

The article studies the perception of children cinematography in USSR. “Aibolit-66” is a movie shot in the aesthetic unusual for Soviet audience. The Soviet press mostly approved of the movie; yet analyzing articles on R. Bykov’s movie one can notice that most critics understood Bykov’s experient as a movie for adult audience. Bykov in forms of irony and grotesque raises questions that were of current interest for soviet society.

The article is devoted to modern approaches of integration graduates of the faculty of journalism to the curriculum of higher education. The author analysis such forms of interaction with alumni as participation in adaption week, interviews with graduate, master classes, coaching in workplace practices and their impact on the formation of competencies and the quality of education in general.

Formation of the education quality evaluation system results affects many aspects of lives’ graduates. Pledged in evaluation parameters affect the ability of graduates in the market of global market competition. A new combination of forms of external and internal evaluation of the quality of education is based on the European standards of accreditation of educational organizations and on a combination of individuality and uniformity of requirements can give additional opportunities for graduates in the global labor and educational environment.

The article analyzes the protagonist of Dostoevsky’s “Demons”, Petr Verkhovensky, in a literary-historical context. The author turns to the biography of Sergey Nechaev, a revolutionary terrorist, and conducts a study of general typological traits inherent in those who preach for a new morality for the benefit of a revolution. Through the use of the Nechaev case materials, newspaper and magazine articles, and personal observations, Dostoevsky, as the author feels, created an archetype of the political radical (in the character of Petr Verkhovensky).

The article discusses the perception of the personality and activities of the last tsarist Minister of internal affairs A.D. Protopopov by contemporaries. Much attention is paid to the image of Protopopov in the book by A. Blok “The Last Days of Imperial Power”. The article analyzes an ambivalent attitude of the contemporaries to him and the comic aspect of the image of Protopopov in the memoirs and diaries of political figures and writers.

The author analyzes publicism’s details in the Spanish medieval writing “The poem of Fernan Gonzales”. The text of the poem telling about historical events of the X is analyzed with the account of realities of the time when it was written. The author’s conclusion is that «The poem of Fernan Gonzales» not so much the reality of the X, as that of the XIII.

This work was performed as part of one of the latest trends in the study of media language - the axiological one. The article following material of the philosophical and journalistic sheets by Ivan Ilyin “Our mission” (“Nashi zadachi”) shows that one of the most important characteristics of a media text is axiological modality, due to the system of values of its creator. The lexical system of studied texts fully reflects axiological scale of the author of «Our mission» representing a strict hierarchy in lexical-semantic fields thus revealing the content of key concepts of I. Ilyin journalism.

The article analyzes the verbal tactics used by the presenter of the programme “Interview”, aired on the TV channel «Moscow 24», the efficiency of their use is being determined. The main objective of the study is to emphasize the issues connected with a journalist use of different speech tactics during interviews, and to identify the causes of communication failures.