Linguistic means of creating a hostile image in the publications of the English-speaking media about Russia
This article describes the means of creating a negative image in the publications of English-speaking media about Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin. By analysis of the texts of qualitative British and American press, we tried to retrace an estimated list of linguistic means, used by addressers of messages for providing manipulative influence on the minds of the public readership. The analysis of the collected material, mostly of general political orientation, showed that the creation of the hostile image is achieved by tendentious characteristics of V.V. Putin and his circle, particularly, and Russia totally, through the prism of the political factor. Describes linguistic means of influence on the emotional sphere of the psyche of people.