This paper deals with phrasemes that appear in the journalistic style of the Russian language, more precisely in the online articles of the daily newspapers Известия and Вечерняя Москва. It also aims to find out for what purpose the authors use them and what role they play in influencing the readership. The paper is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The first chapter of the theoretical part concerns Russian phraseology, and the second one the journalistic style as a functional style of the language. In the part devoted to phraseology and phrasemes, the emphasis is on the relation between free and non-free word combinations, phraseological meaning, unambiguous and ambiguous phrasemes, phraseological synonyms and antonyms, motivation of the meaning of phrasemes, their composition and structure as well as their stylistic classification. The chapter on journalistic style begins with presenting the basic features of this functional style, its main functions, but also the role it plays in society. In the practical part of the paper a total of 28 phraseological units from the above-mentioned Russian daily newspapers are presented and analyzed. The following criteria were considered: motivation of the meaning of phrasemes, stylistic classification, their grammatical composition and structure.