The manipulation problem in the media has been still pressing. Processes and techniques intended for making an influence on public opinion and behaviors are in ongoing improvement, making it difficult to access an objective image of the world. Therefore, this research aims at emphasizing the importance of speech (language) means that form a basis of manipulations in mass communications. To achieve this, authors have provided the systematization of social influence processes in the media and made techniques and means of speech influence clearer. Authors provided a content analysis of texts of 2018 from the media using news resources of different countries ('Russia Today,' 'RIA Novosti,' 'Ukrinform' and 'Fox News Channel') as an example. The research subject consists of news materials of a politico-social nature on Russia's participation in the Syrian conflict. Authors have empirically revealed a clear desire to influence readers of the media resources using covert means of the manipulative influence. In total, they have found five types of manipulative speech influence in texts of the media. There are self-presentation, semantic speech strategies, persuasive strategies, hit piece and information manipulation. A lexical toolkit of speech manipulation includes euphemisms, dysphemisms, slogan words, speech metaphorization, etc. Media texts have become more and more complicated as they contain hints, precedent phenomena, irony, as well as metamessages of informative presentation. Each media of the selected ones more or less uses means of speech manipulation in varying degrees. Applications of such methods of influence (in number) almost directly depend on a political attitude towards an object.

In modern conditions, accompanied by a pandemic around the world, economic recession, a large number of threats arise that negatively affect not only the economy of individual enterprises, but also the entire state as a whole. Therefore, there is a need to maintain the economic security of the state at the proper level to eliminate potential and real threats. In a pandemic and economic recession, it is necessary to develop such directions for improving the economic security of the Russian Federation so that they meet modern realities. This monograph, devoted to the consideration of the main directions of improving the economic security of the Russian Federation in the conditions of economic recession and a pandemic, is the result of the joint work of teachers and students of the Department of Economic Security, Accounting and Law of the Don State Technical University.

The article is devoted to the study of the state, assessment and possible directions of poverty reduction, as one of the most important social problems that poses a threat to the security of the Russian Federation