Fundamental and applied researches in practice of leading scientific schools journal homepage: http://farplss.org ISSN 2313-7525 Volume 31, Number 1, 2019 71 Russian new media propaganda about the events in the eastern Ukraine and Crimea N. Ishсhuk ORCID 0000-0002-5182-2122 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine Article info Accepted 28.02.2019 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine 60, Vladimirskaya Str., 01033, Kyiv, Ukraine Ishсhuk, N. (2019). Russian new media propaganda about the events in the eastern Ukraine and Crimea. Fundamental and applied researches in practice of leading scientific schools, 31 (1), 71–76. The article presents a content analysis of the Russian mass media regarding coverage of events in the Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, identifies main methods, models of propaganda, provides examples of disinformation based on analytical and search services. Monitoring and content analysis has been carried out on the basis of ten Russian Internet Sources on the beginning of 2019. Keywords: propaganda; disinformation; manipulation; fake news;" hybrid " war; information warfare; network mass media. Introduction Russian propaganda issues regarding events in Ukraine began to be actively studied after the Dignity Revolution 2013. Since that moment, journalists and scientists are constantly working on exposing of disinformation, fake photos and video materials, misrepresented facts and comments, as well as materials that contradict journalism ethics and standards. Confirmation and dissemination of the facts of information manipulation by Russia is important for the Ukrainian people, because once again it proves to the European and world community that in Ukraine there is no fratricidal war (as indicated by the RF) and there is no restriction on freedom to speak Russian or another language, no harassment of national minorities etc. Instead, the war in the Eastern Ukraine continues with Russia concerning the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian state, the protection of its borders and people, and in the information space continues to counteract manipulations aimed at influencing the mass consciousness and changing its settings and publicizing the facts of Russian propaganda. During all time of the information war, this issue was studied by scientists in various aspects and manifestations. Regarding the information wars of the present and the first semantic wars (Ukraine, Russia, the Crimea) is written by a well-known scientist G. Pocheptsov in Ukraine (Pochepczov, 2015). The history of information wars, methodology, strategy and tactics in the network space is studied by researcher O. Kurban (Kurban, 2016). In political science work, Valushko I., an academician (Valyushko, 2016) examines the origins of Russia's informational aggression against Ukraine, about strategic communications as a counteraction to Russian propaganda writes D. Dubov (Dubov, 2016), on the effectiveness of Russian propaganda and the strategy for its counteraction, wrote the researchers A. Kavierina (Kavyerina, 2015), as well as the team of authors (Pyevczov, 2014): G. Pevtsov S. Zalkin, S. Sidchenko, K. Khudarkovsky, A. Gordienko. Although the issue of propaganda of the Russian Federation towards Ukraine is devoted to many studies, there are new aspects and methods. The latest scientific publications on this issue date back to 2018, therefore the continuation of monitoring and content analysis of news containing disinformation manipulating the facts in Russian Internet media should be disclosed and publicly presented. Therefore, the relevance of our study is to reflect the complex processes of Russia's "hybrid" war against Ukraine and is only part of the nationwide resistance to Russian information manipulation. Of course, the issue of information warfare is multifaceted and so wide that it is impossible to cover the whole area concerning Russian propaganda in one article. The purpose of the study is to conduct an up-to-date (beginning of 2019) content analysis of Russian mass media that cover the news of the Eastern regions of Ukraine, as well as the Crimea and have a separate section on the site (illegally naming the Ukrainian regions of the DPR (The Donetsk People's Republic), LPR (Luhansk People's Republic), Novorossiya). The goal is to solve the following tasks: ‒ to provide examples of disinformation and propaganda of Russian network media about the events in Ukraine, the war in the East, Crimea based on analytical and search services (TinEye, Google, Alexa);