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The relevance of the study is conditioned by the growing interest in the analysis of the formation of journalistic metaphors as attitudinal markers, means of cognitive and evocative-stylistic evaluation, which makes it possible to keep a close watch on the way the Russian mindset is changing. The main purpose of the study is to identify some cognitive-semantic aspects of journalistic metaphors in contemporary periodicals texts and Internet communication. The main study method is cognitive-semantic analysis of the most important models according to which journalistic metaphors as elements of theory for research into contemporary journalistic discourse are being formed. The present study identifies key journalistic metaphors as evaluative markers of the sociopolitical situation in Russia in the 2010s. These are not metaphors-clichés that are of interest, but occasional tropes reflecting most vividly the response of politicians, political analysts, public people to socio-political events in contemporary Russia, such as sanctions, retirement-age increase, coronavirus pandemic and self-isolation of the Russian people. The study identifies cognitive mechanisms and methods of objectification of metaphoric models (donor domains and recipient domains). The most fruitful topical donor domains as sources of journalistic metaphors are highlighted. It is proved that the cognitive-semantic special aspects of metaphors are conditioned by the belief systems and worldviews of the addressers. The role of journalistic metaphors as means of influencing the addressee and a way of expressing the modal-evaluative attitude of the addresser to one or another reality is determined. The relationship of journalistic metaphors with the socio-political situation in Russia is established.