This work focuses on the specific features of the reception of V. Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate” in conservative Soviet press of the late 1980s. It is noted that most of the reviews appeared in two conservative journals:“Nash sovremennik” (“Our Contemporary”) and “Molodaya gvardiya” (“The Young Guard”). All the articles contained copious critical remarks which, in their turn, were all caused by the ethnic problems highlighted in the novel. The author’s attitude to those issues was usually qualified by the critics as being Russophobic and once the accusation was made, the plot of the novel would be neglected, which testifies to the fact of all the reviewers being biased.

This article is devoted to the featuring the anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup d’état attempt on the pages of newspapers in 1993. The events of August 1991 did not disappear from the current field and were used both for the propaganda and for comprehending the past and forecasts for the future. The fact that a few months before the memorable date the trial of those arrested in the SCSE case began served to refresh the events in the public perception, and just a couple of weeks before that, an abridged version of the indictment was published in public sources.

The article is about the coverage of European Parliament’s resolution “On the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe” in the articles of web portal “Sputnik Estonia” which is a part of IIA “Rossiya segodnya” and is focused on the Baltic countries. The attitude on the Molotov– Ribbentrop Pact (that was signed in 1939 by USSR and the Hitler’s Germany) is analysed; this treaty is deeply condemned in the resolution and, oppositely, is justified by Russian politics and media. The articles of other Russian media contextually related to the topic are contemplated. The conclusion is about “Sputnik Estonia”’s propagandic matrix: the European countries are trying to rewrite the history what eventually may lead to the rehabilitation of Nazism. Russia is standing opposite to that and interpreting the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and the consequences the right way. It seems that this matrix geared towards the senior generation of the Baltics’ citizens grown up on Soviet traditions.

The article is about the criticism of play “The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up” by J.M. Barrie in British periodicals in 1904. It contents the first publication of reviews on the opening night of “The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up”. It describes the problematics of the play, its origin and raises a question of public assessment of the works by J.M. Barrie.

Data journalism has become a stable trend in the development of the global media system. The article is devoted to the key competencies that a data journalist should possess. Examples of the foreign and Russian publications prepared on the basis of data analysis are considered. Special attention is paid to the training of data journalists. The system of journalistic education is not ready to fully meet the challenges of the media market: we can safely say that there are very few educational programs on data journalism in Russia.

The article is devoted to the issues of information influence on the audience in the global media space. This material examines brand journalism as a modern approach to interacting with the audience in the modern global media space. Brand journalism is a new interdisciplinary approach to promoting an idea, concept or brand is the foundation for the media influence model used by many companies.

With modern realities in the development of new media and the information and communication technologies (ICT), the skills of checking information for the reliability of sources – fact-checking (or fact-check) is extremely important. The article briefly considers the term fact-checking and gives the definitions and also related concepts. The author’s understanding of approaches to and tools of the fact-checking in the context of the concept “Source Studies 2.0” is offered. English dictionary definitions are analyzed and translated into Russian, an overview of the Russian-language interpretations is given, as well as links to key publications on the topic.

Today, the “data journalism” in the global media space has emerged as an independent direction with its own goals, objectives, and specifics. Specialized data departments in large media are increasingly appearing, and reporters working with “Big Data” are called data journalists now. There are studies in the scientific community on the data journalism in the USA, Russia, and European countries, but only a small number of such materials are devoted to data projects in Latin America. Meanwhile the data journalism in that part of the world has been actively developing since 2012, and such publications comply with all standards of high-quality analytical material. The article is based on an analysis of the data journalism of the three countries, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, because their projects regularly receive prestigious awards and are recognized by the international community. In particular issues of the thematic diversity of the data materials, work methodology, format features of publications are considered.

Interview is the basis of a journalist’s work. Without an interview, it is impossible to get information, get an opinion and get an idea of the event. The article is devoted to the role and effectiveness of interactive forms in the development of any genre of journalism, including interviews. It describes an algorithm for conducting the training “Game in an interview”. Examples of approach to interviews with various heroes are given. Special attention is paid to the attitude of the journalist to the interviewee. Young ambitious journalists are often not ready to give up their opinion and personal attitude towards the hero, which obviously puts them in the position of non-professionals. For a real look at the situation, the training “Game in an interview” is conducted. After such a lesson – the level of interviewers increases.

The article analyzes the publicistic function of the state triumphs in Russian culture. In Peter the First’s epoch those public spectacles were actively used to formalize the new Imperial ideology. Their component element was panegyric dramas, which were prepared in religious schools. In those panegyric dramas Peter the First was compared to ancient heroes, and Russia was glorified as a new type of state (empire).

The article offers an analysis of Gavriil Kamenev’s poem “Dream”. The poem turns out to be a kind of a philosophic antiode: the author is consistently proving the vanity and fatality of a dream during the first fourteen stanzas and gives by contradiction his view of a positive ideal in the last one. The didactic nature of the poem causes the priority of rhetorical tasks both on compositional level (an amplification of the thesis given in the first stanza and a summary of the above said in 13th and 14th stanzas), and in the choice of the artistic means, most of which are rhetorical figures. Along with rhetorical means, poetic means are used: for example, the change of the object of speech causes the change of the genre and stylistic register, so Kamenev’s poem is not a plain verse publicism, but a not ordinary poetic case. The article also offers two conjectures making the meaning of the damaged during the first publication fragments clean.

This article is the third in a series of publications devoted to the biography and journalistic work of the Russian emigrant writer N.A. Logunova. The article describes the place of Odessa in her work, analyzes her journalistic work “We are from Odessa”, published in the emigrant press in the second half of 1950s. It is assumed that the authors of the article in the future will continue publishing and commenting Logunova’s journalistic texts about Odessa.

The article is devoted to topical issues of taxonomy of modern stylistics. It compares the positions of a number of Russian and foreign scientists who analyze the direction of the stylistics evolution in the conditions of constant expansion of the Internet communication space. The author raises a question about the formation of new scientific directions – the media stylistics and Internet stylistics. Based on the latest empirical material, the author confirms the existence of the media text as a special subject of research within the framework of media stylistics. The prospects for the development of Internet stylistics as an independent scientific discipline are called into question due to the heterogeneity of Internet communication and its reproduction within phenomena that are subject to analysis in the framework of functional stylistics.

The article is an analysis of the pragmatics of using the word in the media text. The noun “freedom” is one of the lexical units that denote social categories, and therefore is pragmatically charged even before being included in the text. The pragmatic potential of the word “freedom” can sharpen the social significance and influence of the media text. The conclusion is made about the great pragmatic possibilities of the word “freedom”.

The article is devoted to the functioning of the synonymous words conscious and realized in media texts. The sources of the research were Kommersant publications that are widely distributed, including on the Internet, and that at the same time are classified as the high-quality press, what makes it possible to use those publications as representative material. The purpose of the article is to determine whether the word realized can be synonymous with the multivalued word conscious in all its meanings. It is concluded that the word realized is used as a synonym for the word conscious in all meanings, although some of them relate to the colloquial style. Moreover an active use of this word in media texts indicates the possible displacement of the word realized by the word conscious, especially in the journalistic style.