Russian Language StudiesRussian Language Studies2618-81632618-8171Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba10169Research ArticleSome linguistic features of newspaper mediatextsVoronovaA VThe Chair of the Russian language and Methods of its Teachingav.voronova@bk.ruMinakovaN AThe Chair of the Russian language and Methods of its Teachingnaminakova@yandex.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia150320143717509092016Copyright © 2016, Russian and Foreign Languages and Methods of Teaching2016The article characterizes linguistic features of newspaper texts. The Russian language is used here as the instrument of professional communication. Nowadays teaching Russian as a foreign language is focused at a great extent and takes into account communicative needs of different categories of students.linguistic featurescommunicative requirementsmediatextderivational means of the publicist styleлингвистические особенностикоммуникативные потребностимедиатекстсловообразовательные средства газетно-публицистического стиля