Rusofobian discourse and media security: new challenges in information warfare conditions

Introduction: this article deals with the concept of “Russophobia” which denotes a current threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and particularly informational and ideological security as well. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to improve the legal and scientific support for information security for protecting our society and state from aggressive xenophobic ideology, based on hatred to all representatives of the multi-ethnic Russian nation. This interdisciplinary scientific research is carried out at the intersection of political science and such legal disciplines as criminology, theory of forensic examinations (forensic expertology), and forensic speech analysis.