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Abstract This article discusses the ways in which culture in general, and language in particular, has become an important field of attention to the authorities in today’s Russia for a particular purpose. Over the last decade, Russian authorities have significantly increased their involvement in the cultural field, creating programmes for the patriotic education of citizens, adopting new laws and regulations affecting film, literature and art, drawing on the capital of culture for all its worth. It is important to get a firm grasp of the state’s renewed interest in culture, in order to assess its impact in the broader context of Russian politics and society. In the following, I discuss a few concrete examples of state involvement in the cultural sphere, focusing in particular on the question of language legislation. Copyright (c) 2017 Ingunn Lunde This work is licensed under a. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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The text category of modality plays a major role in any text organization. It helps to express the author's viewpoint and form the reader's perception in a definite way. Modern journalistic discourse is characterized not only by provision of information for readers, but also by formation of a certain attitude with them; with that the affecting function often takes the form of manipulation. The text category of modality plays an important role in it and reveals itself in the choice and use of various modal means that reinforce pragmatic potential of the text. The press, as a rule, responds actively to changes happening in the world. Newspaper text becomes an information transmission channel with a certain vision of reality.

Journalese discourse is of particular interest because it is the newspaper, who is a mediator between the world of reality and the individual human consciousness. To express “the authorship” in the newspaper text is fundamental to the journalist, as its main goal is to openly get his thoughts, his views and assessments across to the reader.

Therefore, the authorization degree here is extremely high and the author’s modality is always explicit. The object of this article is to consider modality as a text-forming category in journalistic discourse, to identify functioning peculiarities of modality expression media enhancing pragmatic potential of the text. Keywords • • modality • • Mass Media discourse • • textual modality • • subjective modality. References • Negryshev V. Obshchestvo: mezhdunarodnyi sbornik nauchnykh trudov.