Abstract
Article is devoted to results of a research of political journalism in the largest northeast region of Russian Federation - the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Distribution of a genre of a political portrait of the state leaders of Yakutia and also some aspects of modern political journalism in the region is investigated. The subject reveals on studying of some examples of political journalism in mass media of Yakutia. The author on the analysis of journalistic materials for 2017-2019 comes to a conclusion that jour- nalists of RS(Ya) actively use a genre of a political portrait. At the same time the author expresses con- cern that most of publications are more PR-texts than analytical ones. The consideration based on the qualitative content analysis of articles from popular Internet resources of Yakutia: News Ykt-Novosti of Yakutia (the domain name https://ykt.ru/) and Sakha Life online media are taken (the domain name https://sakhalife.ru/). Conclusions and recommendations of the publication can be used by the journalists working in vari- ous mass media and the students studying in "Journalism" departments.