Titarenko T. Peculiarities of Ukraine's image in the Russian Federation at the beginning of the XXI century

The thesis is devoted to the political analysis of theoretical and methodological principles of the state's image in the international relations, peculiarities of Ukraine's image in Russia during the presidency of V. Putin and clarify political and informational aspects of the perception of Ukraine in Russia and Russia in Ukraine. The work is based on theoretical and methodological researches of a problem, generalization of scientific searches' results of foreign and Ukrainian experts, analyzes the key factors in the formation of the state's image function in international political space, structured political image technologies in terms of international interference; the influence of geopolitical interests of Russia on the principles and mechanisms forming the image of post-Soviet states of the world's refined chronological order of formation of Ukrainian state in the political space of Russia; defined changes in shaping the image of Ukraine in Russia at the end of the first term of Putin's presidency, formed a conceptual understanding of the impact of foreign policy priorities of Ukraine's image (2004-2008), found substantial features of the energy policy of the Russian Federation to the formation of the international image of Ukraine carried out a comparative analysis of political and informational aspects of the mutual perception of Ukraine and Russian Federation.