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Legal awareness, which is a set of reliable knowledge about the current law and the ways of its implementation in specific relations, is intended to form and enhance the competence of specialists who, by virtue of their professional duties, are constantly guided by it. The purpose of the study is to highlight the audience features of legal press publications in Ukraine which contribute to the development of legal literacy of specialists of non-legal professions.

The article analyzes the functioning of printed mass media – local periodicals, regional press, and all-Ukrainian newspapers and magazines during the first period of full-scale Russian invasion. Three groups of periodicals are distinguished. Local publications that have stopped publishing and stopped media business for an indefinite period of time. Newspapers that temporarily closed their activities changed the location of the editorial office and resumed publication in an online format in a relatively short period of time.

The research methodology was in the following procedures: two regional periodicals were selected: Kryvyi Rig city newspaper Chervonyi Hornik (Ukrainian language) published in Kryvyi Rig and the weekly social and political newspaper Slovo (Russian language) Odessa (Ukraine). In each printed periodical, 5 political issues (a story about the politics or its party) 44 were selected for the period from January 1, 2006 to February 1, 2008.