Peshkova V.M. Representations of North Caucasian communities in the regional media. Journalist. Social Communications, 2016, № 3 (23-24). pp. 148-158. Peshkova V.M. Representations of North Caucasian communities in the regional media. Journalist. Social Communications, 2016, № 3 (23-24). pp. 148-158.ISSN 2221-6073РИНЦ: https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29070415Posted on site: 29.11.17Текст статьи/выпуска на сайте журнала URL: http://www.ruj.ru/documents/JSK-3-4-16.pdfAbstractThe article presents the features of media presentations of ethno-cultural diversity ofthe population of Russian regions by providing the example of the North-Caucasiancommunities in print and electronic media of three Russian macro-regions (Tyumenregion with autonomous regions, Krasnodar Territory and the Republic of Adygeaand the Nizhny Novgorod region) for 2010-2015 years. A comparative analysis ofquantitative and qualitative characteristics of these communities is made. Followingthe method of critical discourse analysis there important information reasonsare considered: the main themes and contexts in which the communities are represented;speech techniques in the depicting of situations in which they take part; maincharacters and the role and images they are attributed by regional media.