title: Media Coverage of Current Political Situation in Ukraine: Discourse Analysis
abstract: The research looks at the manipulation in political media discourse. The purpose is to investigate media coverage of current political situation in Ukraine by analyzing Western and Russian articles from such sources as 'the Russia Today ', 'the Washington Post', 'The New York Times', 'The Daily Mail' etc. In the present study we have based on the T.A. van Dijk's theory and we have done contextual and textual discourse analysis of the chosen articles. The analysis has shown that journalists tend 
journal: Journal of Siberian Federal University Humanities & Social Sciences