Например: Mr Kadyrov, 32, has shown loyalty to Mr Putin, who has allowed him almost complete autonomy in running the republic in the North Caucasus (The Times 17 April 2009);

Moscow plays along because while Chechnya is quieter, the rest of the North Caucasus is growing increasingly unstable (Times Online, 16 April 2009);

After weeks without reply the teenager was suddenly summoned to see her headmistress at her village school in Kalitnevsky near Rostov, Southern Russia (The Times, 12 February);

The temperature in some parts of Russia will sink to -48C, or even -50C… We expect this in Siberia (The Guardian, 2 February 2009);

Mr Putin, the Prime Minister invited her [Dasha Varfolomeyeva] to travel from Russia’s Far East with her grandmother to celebrate New Year in Moscow (The Times, 12 February 2009).

В). В городе (деревне):

Kadyrov has built Europe’s largest mosque in Grozny… (Times Online, 16 April 2009);

But thousands in Vladivostok depend on reselling foreign cars for their livelihoods (Times Online, 26 January 2009);

A painting by the Russian Prime Minister went on display yesterday in St Petersburg as part of a charity auction to raise funds for children hospitals (The Independent, 15 January 2009);

In Moscow, a motley band of communists, anarchists and liberals gathered at several points across the city to protest against Kremlin rule (The Independent, 2 February 2009);

As it is, here is a risk Vorkuta will become an economic ghetto for those who cannot afford to leave (The Guardian, 23 February 2009);

In Yor Shor, Karp Belgayev and his family have stayed on by force of circumstance rather than choice (The Guardian, 23 February 2009);

This raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the election here in Sochi (The Guardian, 13 April 2009).

3. Нередко количественный параметр переплетается с двумя перечисленными выше параметрами (времени и пространства). Приведем примеры:

His article was titled “Novocherkassk 2009”, a reference to a massacre in 1962 when Soviet troops killed 22 workers in the city of Novocherkassk (количество + пространство + время) (Times Online, 26 January 2009);

In Vladivostok, 2,000 protesters took to the streets, with some carrying banners reading “Kremlin, we are against you” (пространство + количество) (The Independent, 2 February 2009);

A decade ago more than 5,000 people lived in this village about 70 miles beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia’s far north… (количество + пространство + время) (The Guardian, 23 February 2009).

Исследуемые статьи дают информацию о масштабах страны (2 статьи), о регионах России: Чечне (5 статей) – в связи с острой этнической проблемой в этом регионе, Арктике (1 статья) – в связи с глобальным потеплением остро встает проблема использования природных ресурсов, находящихся в недрах Земли под ледниками, Сибири (2 статьи) - опять же из-за природных ресурсов. В статьях упоминаются такие города России, как Сочи, Ростов, Воркута, Норильск, Владивосток, что говорит о масштабах государства, а также о проблемах, возникших там (выступления во Владивостоке, опустение севера и др.).

Не обошли вниманием и события, произошедшие в религиозной жизни России: избрание нового Патриарха Российской православной церкви (2 статьи).

В связи с тем, что в этом году в Европе была непривычно холодная зима, британские журналисты невольно начали сравнивать свою страну и Россию по степени готовности противостоять «сюрпризам» природы. И положение дел в нашей стране оказалось намного лучше, чем в Британии:

While Britain was paralysed by 15cm of snow, Russia was today working normally. People travelling to offices and schools encountered no serious problems – despite the fact residents in Moscow woke up to -24C temperatures. Moscow's major airports functioned without delay. The metro worked. Tourists and locals conceded that it was a bit parky in Moscow, but said this was no reason for the country to collapse.

All of this raises the obvious question: why are the Brits so hopelessly inept when it comes to a bit of a chill?

"We have a culture [in Britain] of people liking to moan" (The Guardian, 2 February) - ответил на вопрос Фредерик Бернас (Frederic Bernas), британский студент, изучающий русский язык в Москве.

4. Для формирования образа России важен также такой критерий как внешний вид (или внешний облик страны). Первые ассоциации, возникающие у западных европейцев в связи с Россией – Putin, Сommunism, Gulag, KGB, The Kremlin. В исследуемом материале нечасто встречается описание прекрасной девственной природы Северного Кавказа или других регионов России:

The dramatic slopes and glens around Krasnaya Polyana are clothed in primeval forest, which is home to leopards, brown bear and lynx (о природе Кавказа) (The Guardian, 17 March 2009);

Sochi's virginalpineforests (The Guardian, 17 March 2009).

Больше внимания уделяют сложным климатическим условиям дальнего севера или экологическим проблемам, возникающим в результате деятельности человека (особенно это касается окрестностей города Сочи, где идет строительство объектов к зимним Олимпийским играм 2014 года):

…there is [in Sochi’s forests] already a decrease in bio-diversity (The Guardian, 17 March 2009);

Environmental campaigners say construction work has already had a disastrous effect on local wildlife, with Sochi's bear population dwindling by a third. Builders have excavated so much sand from the coastal city's Mzymta river that the river ecology has changed, they add (The Guardian, 17 March 2009);

…beyond the Arctic Circle in Russia's far north… winter temperatures drop to -50C (-58F) and blizzards sweep down from the North Pole, burying cars and whisking roofs from houses (The Guardian, 23 February 2009);

Life isn't easy in Vorkuta. In January and February a low sun smudges the sky for only a few hours, and in summer, clouds of mosquitoes, each as big as a thumbnail, hover over the marshes (The Guardian, 23 February 2009).

А вот о коррумпированности и бюрократической системе страны пишут очень много:

Its [Russian] economy is in serious trouble after years of neglected reforms, over-reliance on commodities and a failure to tackle rampant corruption (The Guardian, 20 January 2009);

The FSB, or rogue elements within it, ultra-nationalists, …and corrupt Mafia-style businessmen form a circle of violence (New Statesman, 5 February 2009);

But Russian Bureaucrats had other ideas… (The Times, 12 February 2009);

Advocates argue that the system is evidence of Mr Medvedev’s determination to root out corruption in Russia’s inefficient bureaucracy (The Times, 23 February 2009);