Comparative study of the Russian-language political Discourse of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries: theory and methodology of the Sochi Linguistic - Rhetorical School
The paper presents a general algorithm for a comparative study of the modern Russian-language political discourse of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries in the aspect of the theory and methodology of the Sochi Linguistic - Rhetorical School by giving an example of the political discourse of the media of the Republic of Armenia at the boundary of 2010-2020. The purpose and sequence of research activities, the general research program, expected results, their scientific value and practical significance of the study are characterized. All of the above can serve as a certain theoretical and methodological guideline for organizing and conducting research of this type in the continuum of CIS countries that have historically shared polyethnic sociocultural & educational space. With this approach, political discourse is positioned as a tool for forming the mentality of a collective linguistic personality of one ethnic society in its relationship with others, historically close, developing within the borders of the CIS in the context of the functioning of the Russian language as a language of interethnic communication