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Investigation of main tendencies of the modern Russian political linguistics was based on the following grounds: (1) - research in the sphere of political linguistics - description of separate elements of the language of politics; (2) - chronological framework of investigation: soviet, post soviet epoch; (3) - levels of analyses: vocabulary, phonological system, word-building, morphology, syntax, text and discourse; (4) - normative approach - descriptive approach which implies pure record and study of new phenomena without their estimation; (5) - research of separate political genres, narratives and texts or study of some features common to the language of politics; (6) - investigation of the idiostyle of some political leaders, political trends and parties or study of some regularities of the language of politics; (7) - discourse research of communicative roles, rituals, strategies and tactics i.e. the language of politics under study; (8) - use of the methods of psycholinguistics, cognitive science sociolinguistics, cultural linguistics, structuralism and others; (9) - study of Russian political speech - comparative research of political discourse referred to different country epochs; (10) - special investigations in the sphere of political linguistics - political linguistics material taken from works of other scientific fields.