In the article, we are talking about works in the genre of “dialogues” published by the journal of the Academy of Sciences “Monthly essays for benefit and entertainment”. This genre was new to Russian literature and assimilated to it initially in the form of translations from various European periodicals, collections and books.

F.M. and M.M. Dostoevsky’s journal “Epocha” with D.I. Pisarev on an issue of women role in the society. The author comes to the conclusion that Solovyov’s position on women’s issue was more conservative than that of Pisarev. N.I. Solovyov believed that the social equality of men and women is impossible, since there is no physiological equality between them. Pisarev claimed that the women had not yet attained the same heights as men because of her social position and the conditions in which they were brought up.

This article is about Odessa’s satirical magazine “Bomba” (1917-1919), and about its editor, journalist Boris Fleet. The article analyzes Flit biography, materials of his criminal case, discovered in funds of the Central archive of FSB RF. It is concluded that the contents of the “Bomba” was one of the reasons of arrest of the journalist, his deportation to Orenburg in 1935, and execution in 1937.

Authors discuss a controversy in soviet periodicals that reflects the official attitude towards I. Il’f and E. Petrov’s satirical duology (first of all to “The Golden Calf”). Special attention is paid to the role of A. Lunacharskiy and A. Fadeev.

The analysis of publications in the Soviet periodicals of the second half of the 1940-s demonstrates that the fight against formalism in fine arts was organized not so much by the top party functionaries, as by the group of the artists and critics associated with the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (abolished in 1932) and was used by them to get the key positions in the Academy of Fine Arts of the USSR established in 1947.

The article studies the perception of children cinematography in USSR. The Soviet press mostly approved of the movie, but there are differences between the state press and the regional one. By means of irony and grotesque Bykov raises questions that were of current interest for Soviet society. They became the focus of attention only for central press, in regions however they were preferred not to be emphasized.

This article considers establishing “Cumhuriyet”, one of the first Newspapers in the history of the Turkish Republic. The newspaper was created with direct involvement of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, it defended his ideas on the state-building. However, it also covered issues that preoccupied in those years ordinary citizens of Turkey.

The article examines Leon Trotsky political program with regard to literary and artistic process in the USSR. Trotsky was a supporter of “poputchiki” and an opponent of proletarian literature as the perfect final form of creative work. He believed in the triumph of communism when classes and class struggle disappear, and the time for the final victory of mankind over social ills will come. Expecting the world revolution, he did not admit that the temporary phase of the development of artistic creative work - in the form of proletarian literature - may be final. Proletarian literature, he argued, can not be a full-fledged literature of the future

Using critical articles on first editions of the novel “Life and Fate” by V.S. Grossman and the publishers memories, the author of the study restores the history of textual work on the book. He demonstrates contradictions that arise when comparing various sources and brings up a question about correctness of the novel edition being in replicating now.

This article explores the propaganda schemes of the newspaper “Izvestia”, which helped to line up an image of B. Yeltsin and confronting him the Supreme Council. Stepwise discrediting the Parliament as a threat to the existence of a young Russian state was intended to justify shooting up the White House in the fall of 1993.

The article examines the functioning of the high style lexeme “zlodej” (villain) in the texts of the newspapers “Zavtra”, “Novaya Gazeta” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” in 2017. The author analyzes the specifics of the word use by different political writers and its dependence on the ideological guidelines of the editorial board. He also emphasizes an expressive potential of high negativism acting as means of direct and indirect negative rating, as well as ironic social evaluation. Recommendations are given concerning the analyzed word reflection in explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language.

The article characterizes compressive word formation as one of the philology current processes. The purpose of the research is to discover how often and lawfully compressive word formation’s methods are being applied in sports discourse. The author emphasizes attention on analyzing word-formation processes from speech standards’ point of view. Abbreviation and substantivation - efficient word-formation methods - are being described in the article. The special significance of suffixal unification is also mentioned. In the end the author draws conclusions about the role of word formation in contemporary mediaspeech discourse.

Among the means of implementing the pragmatic guidelines of the publication there is an inclusion in the text of words denoting social categories. one of such lexical units is the noun work considered in the article.

Basing on the research of methapors’ groups theme an article reveals how XXI century’ glossy magazines represent modern man’s image percieved by an audience as an ideal one. Portrait essays in globally recognized men’s lifestyle GQ magazine were used as a material for the study.

The article is devoted to the virtual reality journalism format. The development of a new media format leads to the transformation of traditional journalistic genres, in particular reportage. The main value of virtual reality for journalism is the ability to enhance the presence effect, which secures the strength of emotional connections between the viewer and events covered in the reportage. The dynamics of the story in the format of VR-technology causes the change of competence of the journalist.

The modern information society dictates new requirements for tools and technologies of interaction in the global communication space. Corporate media play an important role in this process. New approaches to understanding the role of corporate media in brand journalism, the global focus of corporate communications in general, allow to realize the integrative nature of technologies of interaction with parties interested in the development of the company’s brand as a whole.

This article briefly discusses the history of concept “big data” and clarifies some aspects of the emergence and development of concept in dictionaries, scientific and business periodicals. What is important - it identifies factual inaccuracy about an origin of the term, which is replicated in many Russian publications (including scientific). So there is a clarification over the appearance and existence of the term in the Russian scientific, popular-scientific and business publications.

This article brings up a question of the essence of the comics, it’s structure, coordination of visual and verbal elements. In Russia comics are used mostly in children periodicals. Russia and Japanese comics in magazines for children have similarities and differences. In both countries comics are directed to young audience, and differences are expressed in national mental peculiarities and in the fact that Japanese comics “manga” have their own communication features that distinguish them from other comic books.