Communicative characteristics of a political figure in the genre of interview

The author of the article has made an attempt to analyze communicative behaviour of the famous public and political figure Eu. Roizman in the context of such a complex speech event as an interview. The author characterizes the content structure of the genre; gives the stylistic qualification of the most frequent language units in the interviewee's speech moves; determines the interviewee's language personality type from the viewpoint of dialogic communication; reveals the basic communicative behaviour patterns through analyzing communicative tactics that form the interview microlevel.