The style of modern Russian newspapers is strikingly different from that of Soviet newspapers of the so-called pre-Perestroika period. There is reason to believe that not only socio-economic and political factors directly, but also the philosophy and aesthetics of literary postmodernism, which have taken a prominent place in the cultural life of the country, played a significant role in the changes that have taken place and are taking place. This conclusion is supported by some clear, though incomplete (partial) analogies between the main style-forming features of postmodern fiction and some characteristic features of the style of modern Russian newspapers. Next, we show these correspondences by comparing the features of postmodern stylistics that are significant for our topic with their "reflections" (reflexes) in newspaper texts. It should be noted that since Russian postmodernism "combines the unconnected, elitist and egolitarian at the same time", page 68 It uses the "language of mass culture", is extremely politicized and "very often manifests itself through radical, emphatically shocking techniques" (Skoropanova I. S. Russkaya postmodernistskaya literatura: Ucheb. posobie, Moscow, 2001, pp. 5, 63, 71). Some of the newspaper texts cited by us, from an ethical point of view, are beyond the traditional one the literary norm. Intertextuality, understood as "conscious citationality", "dialogue between texts" and "interaction of various types of intra-text discourses" (Il'in I. I. Intertextuality // Modern foreign Literary Studies (countries of Western Europe and the USA): concepts, schools, terms. Encyclopedic Reference Book, Moscow, 1999, pp. 204-210, is widely presented in newspaper texts in the form of direct quotations, reminiscences of literary and other allusions, parodies of speech genres or specific texts. Direct quote: "Did the moral level of the father of the people reach sky-high heights when he spouted:' As I said, so it will be! '" (Tomorrow. 1999. N 1 ... Читать далее