title: Крымский референдум и интерпретация его итогов в СМИ (на примере анализа российской и американской печати)
abstract: The authors of the article analyze approaches to cover the problem of the Crimea in the Russian-Ukrainian crisis in the American and Russian mass media. Similarities and differences in the coverage of the topic, the strategies of the leading print mass media of the USA and Russia in disclosure of the conflict are discussed. The research model, which assumes comparison of more than 50 publications of one period of time and determination of the general tonality of the attitude of the authors to th