Acts of civil protest in the mass media
The article is devoted to the study of communication strategies and tactics of coverage of the July 20, 2019 protest rally “For Access to Elections” and the August 10, 2019 protest rally “Let us regain the right to vote” as part of a comparative analysis of the content of such federal media as Vedomosti, Izvestia, Kommersant, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Novaya Gazeta and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. These publications were selected on the basis of the principle of highest citation in the media and social media for July and August 2019 according to the ratings of Medialogy. The comparison was based on newspaper content from July 20 to July 24, 2019 and from August 10 to August 14, 2019.