This article is about the Russian-language press in Odessa of the days of Romanian occupation. It is the first publication and comment upon a letter from Odessa writer and journalist N.A. Lagunova (Ivanova), to professor A. Dallin, dedicated to periodicals in Odessa in 1941–1944. The article raises questions about reasons for collaborationism among Odessa journalists of 1940-s, about relations among them, as well as questions on the periodicals orientation and etc.

The article reviews works in the genre of “dreams” published by the journal of the Academy of Sciences “Monthly essays for the benefit and entertainment”. “Dream” as an integral work is considered as a separate genre, which has a number of distinctive features. This genre was new for Russian literature and was originally assimilated by it as translations from various European periodicals, collections and books.

The article deals with the publicistic position of the famous Russian journalist M.N. Katkov. The author analyzed the evolution of Katkov’s views on the situation in Russia and comes to the conclusion that throughout his creative career Katkov was always a supporter of a strong monarchical power in Russia, which preserves civil rights and freedom of the press.

The article covers a conflict between one of the key figures in Russian émigré literature during the 1940s I.A. Bunin and the publisher of the main émigré quarterly in this period “The New Review” M.S. Tsetlin. The author concludes that Russian anti-Soviet émigré community at that time was in deep crises as both the result of the German occupation of France and the new conditions at the beginning of the Cold War era, giving it the role of a significant political force. Therefore, the conflict between Bunin and Tsetlin should be viewed in the context of the Cold War.

With the help of numerous expressive means, methods of propaganda and manipulation, in particular, terms-ideologues and oppositions “friend–foe”, the Newspapers covered the process of adoption of the new Constitution in the spring-autumn of 1993 by the President and Parliament. The newspaper “Izvestia” proved the legitimacy of the meeting of the President and his right to accept his project bypassing the Congress; “Pravda” defended the current Constitution and justified the illegality of initiatives and actions of Yeltsin.

The author analyzes necrologue in the newspaper “Limonka” as publicism. The material of the study is the necrologue “The Party of the Dead” by Alena Polunina, which appeared in the newspaper. The text is considered as an attempt to glorify Andrey Suhorada and connect the “Primorsky Partisans” myth with the myth of the banned National Bolsheviks Party.

The article focuses on reception of the movie Two Comrades Served directed by Evgeny Karelov with a script by Yuli Dunsky and Valery Frid. The movie was shot towards the 50 anniversary of the October Revolution. The article analyses reviews issued after the release of the film. The article shows how the heroic discourse of the perception of revolutionary events is changing. The way the film depicts the revolution erased the strict opposition “us–them”. The emphasis is placed in such a way as to formulate a new idea of national unity, for which the anniversary of the October Revolution was successfully chosen.

Virtual reality journalism gets widespread in the global media industry. The article attempts to analyze what are the journalist competences being actionable with that technology, what are the difficulties and issues faced by the experts during the preparation of the VR video. In preparation for the immersive content the priority is taken by the competence associated with script development, filming with 360° cameras, the production of 3D graphics and directing projects using VR technology.

The article is devoted to the issues of information influence in the global media space. It discusses brand journalism as a modern approach to the content creating and interacting with the audience.The author also proposes her conception of the media influence model in the information space. On the example of the activity of the CGTN media holding (China), the implementation of the media influence model based on the brand journalism approach is shown.

Because of a lot of information in the Internet, it is becoming increasingly difficult for user to realize and analyze facts every day. The audience gradually ceases to tell the difference between the important and secondary facts and can’t reveal useful information. As a result, journalists transformed from the information intermediary to analysts or conductors in the world of Big Data. So Big Data becomes the main tool for modern reporters and contributes to the development of a new direction in mass media whichis named Data journalism. Data journalism in turn dictates new requirements and methods of work and analyzing and presenting numerous facts in a convenient and attractive form for the audience become the main task. In this regard, the visualization or creation of the demandable project based on Big Data is a general and developing activity in the media. The article discusses the modern ways of visualizing data materials, provides methods for creating infographics used in the world’s media, analyzes the issues associated with poor-quality and incomplete visualization and also the conclusion is given on why it is important to continue using that form of material.

The article is devoted to the perception of Russian philosopher N.A. Berdyaev, who was in exile, of philosophical struggle in the USSR at the end of the 20s – beginning of the 30s. Being an opponent to Russian materialism in the times of the First Russian Revolution, Berdyaev saw that his former ideological opponents suffered a crushing defeat and thatin the USSR a new theoretical model of Marxism was formed, which was based on the synthesis of the matter and dialectics. That synthesis changed the essence of Marxism, in Berdyaev’s understanding, turning it into extreme idealism, because matter was endowed with the properties of the creative substance. However, such metamorphosis did not mean that Berdyaev became closer to Soviet philosophy. The main arguments regarding the empiric critics of the beginning of the century remained valid, and when it came to the new situation in Soviet philosophy. For the thesis about the value of impersonal philosophy, dissolved in the interests of the proletariat and the Bolshevik party, remained unchanged in the Marxism of Stalin’s time. Marxism still professed both its hatred for metaphysics and its total rejection of the idea of the rights of the individual to be metaphysically higher than the collectivist principles.

The article analyzes the journalistic component of the first two articles of the famous Soviet novelist V.S. Grossman, published in July 1941 by the newspaper “Izvestiya”. Despite V. Grossman’s being famous as a war correspondent, those two pieces have not been commented on yet. It is concluded that the main journalistic method used by V.S. Grossman is an antithesis that manifests itself at the level of the ideology, composition and speech means.

The article is devoted to the polemic aspect of the novel by Italian writer K. Malaparte “The Ball in the Kremlin”. This novel is written as memories of a trip to the USSR in 1929 and is dedicated to the life of the Soviet elite. In the novel Malaparte continues the debate with Leon Trotsky. Trotsky had previously claimed that the corrupt Soviet elite were Stalin’s supporters. On the contrary, Malaparte seeks to show that the corrupt elite are supporters of Trotsky.

The article analyzes the journalistic component of P.N. Krasnov’s novel “Behind the Thistle”, written in the first years of the writer’s life in exile. The utopian novel tells the story of the future of Russia, that in a few decades it will turn into a prosperous monarchical state based on Orthodox ideals. The author analyzes the historical context of the novel, reveals the main socio political ideas of the novel and shows their similarities and differences with the main ideological constructions of the Russian emigration of the first wave.

The article analyses the publicistic techniques used by E.I. Shub when creating the documentary movie “Spain” (1939). The historical and political context of the creation of this film is analyzed, the techniques used by Shub and his colleagues-filmmakers are described. It reveals the degree of reliability of the events shown in the film. The article concludes that the techniques used in the film served the tasks of political propaganda.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the history of formation and further lexical and stylistic evolution of the stable word combination bright tomorrow. Based on the data of explanatory dictionaries of the 19–20th centuries and the materials of the official Soviet newspaper “Pravda”, the author considers bright tomorrow as one of Soviet ‘ideologemes’ and a unit of the so-called Newspeak. This verbal formula remains unchanged in the media speech of the first decades of the 21st century is analyzed using materials of the National corpus of the Russian language and the website of the Kommersant publishing house. It is concluded that the set phrase bright tomorrow remains relevant for journalistic text as a means of expression and compact transfer of some complex meaning. The author of the article predicts further application of the collocation bright tomorrow in Russian public speech as a symbol of beautiful but unattainable hopes.

The article is devoted to the reflection in the modern media space of such concepts as good, evil, justice, duty, dignity, responsibility, conscience, honor, etc., as well as the use of regulatory words in the media text is good, bad, possible, impossible, necessary, permitted, forbidden. The degree of development of those concepts in the media does not only reflect the level of culture, but also affects it.

Article is devoted to the one of the debatable linguistic issues – the emergence in the Russian language of foreign loanwords and their adaptation in media. Media-centric quality of the modern culture makes the journalistic text the basic platform for linguistic innovation, including emergence of derivative words. The purpose of this article – to establish whether some latest loanwords functioning in texts of media match the criteria elaborated by linguists for words which are capable to take the place among terminological lexicon. One of indicators for the viability of the latest loanwords is their wordformation potential. The author draws a conclusion that using those words in the media text journalists seek to give to the issue considered by them a legal status. At the same time using the derivative of those lexemes of various parts of speech in media demonstrates the viability of the latest loanwords in the Russian-speaking environment and allows predicting their further absorption by Russian language, in particular – in publicistic style.