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Events: 1996 Presidential Election
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"A Way Out of the Dead End"
The open letter that became known as the “Letter of the Thirteen” (titled "A Way Out of the Dead End"), signed by thirteen of post-Soviet Russia’s most powerful businessmen ahead of the 1996 presidential election, reflected the power of capital in post-Soviet politics.
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“Go buy some food… for the last time!”
An anti-Zyuganov campaign poster from the 1996 Yeltsin re-election campaign.
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Oligarchs collude for Yeltsin in 1996
“A Way Out of the Dead End,” an op-ed co-authored by prominent Russian “oligarchs” and published in the Wall Street Journal-like daily “Kommersant” in April 1996, which announced their intention to use their considerable media resources to sink the Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the upcoming 1996 presidential election.
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Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko Party runs for president, 1996
Grigory Yavlinsky’s 11-minute presidential campaign ad from 1996.
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"First Glove" by Alexander Brener
Alexander Brener, "First Glove" 1995: a performance where Brener challenged Yeltsin to a fist-fight on the Red Square.
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Anatoly Osmolovsky & the Nongovernmental Control Commission, Against Everyone, 1999, Lenin’s Mausoleum
A group of people holding a banner reading "Against Everyone" stand atop Lenin's Masoleum.
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