Received 8 December 2020. Accepted 14 May 2021. Published online 9 July 2021.A return of the Orthodox religion and a renaissance of the Russian Orthodox Church gave a way for politically active movements of Orthodox fundamentalists and monarchists. They were obsessed with the idea of the “end of time” and argued that the Antichrist was at the door. The article focuses on several national-patriotic newspapers and their interest to Orthodox prophecies about the end of time, which can be traced from the turn of the 1990s. It is examined who exactly, in what way and for what goals developed and discussed eschatological ideas. The major themes, rhetorical means and key words are scrutinized, which helped consumers to disclose the “enemies of Russia” and to reveal their “perfidious plans” and “harmful actions” aimed at the destruction of Russia and its people. A relationship between this ideology and theological teaching of the end of time is analyzed.The research was supported by the Fundamental and Applied Studies Program of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation “The Ethnocultural Diversity of Russian Society and Consolidation of An All-Russian Identity, 2020–2022”, within a project “The Ideological Basis and Practices of Radicalism and Extremism”
