A1991poster advertising the religious cult of Maria Devi Khristos (born Marina Tsvigun), featuring a woman in religious regalia making a gesture of blessing. 

The early-to-mid 1990s saw an explosion of chewing gum packaging featuring all sorts of imagery, much of it seemingly irrelevant to the underlying product. Inserts might include film stills from The Godfatheror Jurassic Park, pornographic pictures, or, in this case, characters from New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali’s syndicated “Love Is…” series, which originally dated to the 1960s and ’70s.  

In First Glove, a 1995 performance by Moscow actionist and writer Alexander Brener (1957-), the artist challenged then-President Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) to a fistfight on Moscow’s Red Square. 

In 1999, Anatoly Osmolovsky and the artists’ collective known as the Non-Governmental Control Commission staged an artistic and political action in which group members displayed a banner reading “Against Everyone” while standing atop Lenin's Mausoleum. 

A 1998 cover of the tabloid Express-Gazette featuring pop stars Alla Pugacheva (1949-) and her then-husband, Filipp Kirkorov (1967-) embracing next to a headline speculating about the viability of Kirkorov's sperm. 

The cover of the first issue of the early 1990s magazine SpidInfo, with an anxious nude couple turned away from one another in bed.