Multi-National Press in New Russia (Some Aspects of Functioning)

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Rafail P. Ovsepyan

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor at the Chair of History and Statutory Regulation of Domestic Mass Media, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: iprosmi@yandex.ru

Section: Periodical Press

The article describes the main processes of formation of the national press of Russian regions and characteristics of transformation of the national journalism over the past 20 years. A special place is occupied by an analysis of some aspects of the ethnic press in the country at the present stage.

Keywords: regional and national press, tendencies of formation, specifics of transformation, national self-consciousness, ethnic press