FEATURES OF COVERAGE OF THE CHECHEN CONFLICTS IN FOREIGN MEDIA
This article presents an analysis of the existence of two different points of view of the media on the events that took place in the Chechen Republic in the 90s of the XX century. This divergent and sometimes contradictory attitude of Russian and foreign journalists towards the military campaign in Chechnya is due to geopolitical reasons. From this we can conclude that the decisive role in political relations between Russia and the Western world was assigned not so much to what is happening here, but to how these events were covered by journalists. Thus, the first military campaign clearly showed that the media is a strong tool in the information war.