A Negative Image of Rosgvardiya in the Context of Information War: A Linguistic Aspect

Abstract

In the contemporary context when the geopolitical situation is rather complicated and instable the threat to the national security of the Russian Federation remains very serious. The United States of America and their European allies are conducting an aggressive anti-Russian foreign policy pursued both by military and non-military means of confrontation. The latter include the so-called information war. This article examines the attempt of the anti-Russian Western countries led by the United States of America to distort the perceptions of the citizens of our country about the Federal National Guard Service by the means of information technology. The purpose of the work is to determine the features of the formation of the negative image of Rosgvardiyaon the material of Russian-language media texts that stick to an anti-Russian position. As a result of the study, the directions of the formation of the image of Rosgvardiya were identified, the linguistic means of creating the image of the state structure and achieving manipulative influence on the audience were revealed, and an attempt was made to visualize the image of the national guard troops. The authors come to the conclusion that the anti-Russian media purposefully create a distorted image of Rosgvardiya in order to mislead the country's population, to form a negative attitude not only to the structure itself, but also to the state regime, and, ultimately, to weaken the internal and external power of the Russian Federation.