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The article examines the peculiarities of nuclear blackmail as a tool of Russia’s foreign policy in the post-truth era and the threat this poses to Ukraine and the international community. It also analyzes the Russian Federation’s legal and regulatory framework in the nuclear sphere, in particular the latest official documents of 2024-2025, which significantly expanded the list of grounds for the use of tactical nuclear weapons – a move that directly contradicts the international obligations of the USSR/Russia under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

2016 was the year of two significant political campaigns, accompanying the referendum on membership of the United Kingdom in the European Union and presidential election in the USA. A popular image of these both campaigns consists of many cases of twisting the truth by the winning parties. It was confirmed by announcing the terms ’fake news’ and ’post-truth’ as Words of the Year 2016. Both words were and are widely used by politicians, journalists and voters. This article is an attempt to prove if these both new words actually mean new phenomena in journalism.