VARIABILITY OF INTERPRETATION OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION AS AN INDICATOR OF SOCIAL TENSION (A CASE STUDY OF RUSSIAN AND UKRAINI- AN MEDIA)
The purpose of the article is to establish the determination mechanisms that predefi e the variability of the media representation of a politically unstable situation that causes social tension. It is revealed that the multiplicity of representations of political subjects and their targets is represented as a polycentric interpretative fi ld consisting of semantic versions in their confl functioning. The article analyzes the ethnopolitical situation associated with the national identity of the Rusyns of Transcarpathia.