Online media in the languages of Russian ethnic groups: Current state and key trends
Journal: World of Media Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies
Year: 2020

The paper examines 75 online media outlets, registered in the biggest cities of eight republics of the Russian Federation: Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Chechnya, Mordovia, Dagestan, Udmurtia, and Crimea. The choice of the republics among 22 republics of Russia was determined by the size of nonRussian ethnic groups residing in those areas (i.e. the number of people, who consider their native language a language other than Russian, according to the state census of 20103 ). We supposed that