Scale and risks of external destructive information and psychological impact on residents of Russian regions bordering on Ukraine in social media

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the information flow of external destructive information and psychological influence on residents of Russian regions bordering on Ukraine in social media. The authors use methods of social media predictive analytics to determine the key characteristics of information flow in the context of growing risks of modern information warfare, in which users of individual regions act as unique targets of purposeful information and psychological work of external network actors.