This article is about the coverage of the 1920s the centenary of the Decembrist revolt by the Soviet press. It analyzes both the newspapers and magazines materials, and the speeches of the party and the state leaders. The authors conclude that there was no single ofcial position in relation to the Decembrists at that time, but the majority of publicists were guided in their statements by M.N. Pokrovsky ‘s point of view.

The paper deals with mutual attitude of intelligentsia and the soviet regime in the early 1930-s as it was reflected in a play “List of benefactions” by Jury olesha. By the material of the soviet criticism reviews of this play it demonstrates the mechanism of “reforging” the intelligentsia (artists, poets, writers) into a social group destined to “service” the state apparatus.

The research focuses on the criticisms expressed by some Soviet editorial boards over A. Marienhof’s memoires about Soviet literature life of the 1920s and 1930s. The vicissitudes of their pre-publication and publication are highlighted.

The circumstances of the literary almanac “Metropol’ ” being published in the USSR are researched. The scholars provide some evidence that the project was sanctioned by the Soviet administration and intended to serve a sign of the forthcoming liberalization. However, later another option was chosen due to the preparation of the Soviet invasion of Afganistan in 1979.

This article considers methods and propaganda techniques of the newspaper “Pravda” during the Constitutional crisis of 1992–1993. The newspaper consistently defended the standpoint of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation in its confrontation with President B.N. Yeltsin. The “Pravda”-line was built on accusations of the president’s supporters in fomenting a conflict between the executive and legislative branches of power and in striving to establish a personal dictatorship.

The author analyzes school dramas of Peter the Great’s Epoch as publicist writings. The research is based on the play The Triumph of the Orthodox World. In this school drama written in 1703 images of the empire and apostles teaching are used to praise Peter the Great’s policy

The article deals with the issue of correlation of the individual creative manner of Patriarch Nikon and literary tradition of the Russian Middle Ages. The main object of philological analysis are Nikon’s letters to contemporaries and his appeals to the Tsar on the personal and topical issues. The author comes to the conclusion that the famous innovator and reformer of the church as a writer and publicist corresponded to the conservative etiquette of the ancient Russian book culture.

In the article, the author presents the overview of A.I. Herzen’s changing views on revolution and the way they are reflected in his political essays. Having a broad perception of revolution, Herzen considers the emergence of Christianity and its early years in Ancient Rome as well as the French Revolution to be the exemplary, paradigmatic revolutionary cases. Both revolutions, their “apostles” with their belief in the world transformation were Herzen’s assessment criteria and models for the prospective coups and their participants. The revolution of 1848 shattered Herzen’s faith in the new revolutionaries, in the expedience of Jacobin methods as well as in the necessity of revolutionary changes for the present. It resulted in a crisis in his worldview and demanded deep analysis of the reasons why the revolution failed. From year 1848 on, Herzen was getting less inclined to the idea of a coup d’etat, he refused to idolize the “apostles of the revolution” and Jacobin terrorist methods.

 The article discusses the controversy between two outstanding representatives of Russian modernism on the article of Vladimir Solovyov, published in the journal “Questions of Philosophy and Psychology” (№ 40). In the history of modernism, this is perhaps the earliest polemic about the essence of the “I” as the frst principle in the constitution of being. This issue will be discussed especially actively in the journal “Questions of Life” (1905). In the polemics of 1898 between Valery Bryusov and Mikhail Samygin, the most difcult questions of the self-determination of early modernism are seen.

The article is about the position of the publicist and philosopher VV. Rozanov in connection with the “Baileys case”. His articles of 1911–1913, published in the newspaper “Novoye Vremya”, are analyzed. Agreeing with a conclusion about the possibility for Jews to commit ritual murder of a Russian boy, Rozanov, according to the author of the article, thus developed his complex philosophical views on Judaism. However, that position was not accepted by the liberal circles, which led to his social isolation.

The article is devoted to the journalistic understanding of the conflict between generals A.I. Denikin and P.N. Krasnov in the newspapers of the Civil War and Russian emigration. According to the author, historians who described the differences between the two military leaders, focused on memoir evidence, and did not take into account the materials of periodicals that’s why the scale of the conflict was greatly exaggerated.

The article deals with the history of the semantic evolution of the verb dovlet’ (to sufce) in Russian language and the functioning of the word in modern newspaper journalism. The history of borrowing and a gradual rethinking of the verb since the 17th till the 21st century is considered. The article presents the data of linguistic dictionaries, in which different interpretations of the word are accompanied by stylistic marks. It compares language introspection, reflected in the educational publications on the topic of linguistics, to the speech practice of “RossiyskayaGazeta”, “Kommersant”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Zavtra” (2017–2018) and marks the proceeding semantic extension of the verb. The author proves the high importance of journalists’ use of words for the formation of the society’s speech culture.

The article attempts to outline approaches to studying the pragmatic properties of linguistic units in the media text, which contributes to both the theory and practice of journalism and the formation of the research apparatus of a new linguistic discipline – media linguistics. In addition, the study of the pragmatic properties of language unit will make it possible to identify mechanisms of its influence on the recipients of media and, therefore, journalists will have am opportunity to consciously direct the media to the audience humanistic ideals, to spirituality. For the frst time the authors identify the difference between the terms “pragmatic charge of the language unit” and “pragmatic capacity of the linguistic unit”, they clarify that the pragmatic charge can be both linguistic and contextual, and note that the pragmatic potential of the linguistic unit is realized in a journalistic text when it is based on the reception, tactics, strategy of speech influence. Emphasizing that the units of different levels of the language system (phonemes, morphemes, words, word combinations, sentences) can be pragmatically charged, the authors of the article focus on methods of studying the pragmatic charge and the pragmatic potential of the word as a unit of vocabulary, as the study of pragmatic properties of the word is the basis for studying pragmatic properties media text. The choice of a word in the implementation of a particular pragmatic goal is closely related to the worldview of the creator of the text and with its value system (i. e. with the “sender factor”, which determines the vector of speech influence of the journalistic text on an audience).

The article is devoted to one of the most debatable linguistic issues: loanwords emergence in the Russian speech. Special attention is paid to the foreign-language words which have Russian semantic analogs (equivalent loanwords). English is the main source of these neologisms in the last decades owing to the political and economic reasons. Therefore loanwords in this article are English equivalents. Media text is the main platform for any linguistic innovation because the modern culture is media culture. Lexical and stylistic preferences of journalists form the society language taste, the ideal models of Russian language and imply critical attitude to language means selection. “Kommersant”, “MK”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, and online-edition “Wonderzine” publications of 2006–2018 are the material for this article. The choice of sources is caused by existence of various, often social, subjects in them and also by mass distribution, including Internet. In the article an attempt is made to defne the place and purposes of the so-called excess loanwords using in media texts.

The article is devoted to the study of factors that determine the professional identity of journalists in the information society and their perception by the media community. Due to the universalization of the profession, the identifers of professional activity have undergone signifcant changes and the identity itself is eroded. Today being a modern journalist means to be able to work for different media formats simultaneously, to adapt to new technologies and use modern equipment for collecting and relaying the information, to work with a large amount of information, being able to interact with the audience keeping in mind the “subject-subject” relationships, to comply with ethical and legal norms and fnd new forms of professional creative work. Journalism education plays an important role in the formation of professional identity. If prior to beginning his professional activity, the student gains strong professional identifers, that will be the key to his career and personal growth.

This paper briefly outlines some issues of domestic source studies in the context of the development of interdisciplinarity and transition to the digital age, it also presents the author’s concept of «Source Studies 2.0”, which is focused largely on media communication and journalism. As a result of the general review of modern manuals for source studies, some gaps in the subject feld are shown and the necessity in development of the nowadays methodology and generalization of practical experience and techniques in digital humanities is proved.

The search for funding is a key factor for successful work among investigative journalists in nowadays. This article describes the main sources of funding that modern investigators use. In particular the possibilities of crowdfunding, funds, grants, collaborative journalism and awards as a source of fnancial support were considered. For analysis the situation with funding in the US and Russia examples of funding were taken. These examples are successful media and non-proft centers that have established themselves as professional organizations in the feld of investigative journalism. There are the Propublica, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICI) and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) in the USA. There are Novaya Gazeta, RBK, Vedomosti in Russia. It is noteworthy that the sources of funding can differ from each other signifcantly because it depends on different political, economic situations in the country as well as the mood and preferences of the audience. It confrms the study. The article also contains the priority sources of fnancing in Russia and the United States in their comparative characteristics and draws conclusions about the most effective ways of fnancing in the current media environment.