A glasnost-era play by Mikhail Shatrov (1932-2010) that opened, without the cuts censors had previously requested, at the Lenin Komsomol Theater in Moscow in February 1986. 

A clip from one of many perestroika-era televised conversations between American and Soviet "regular people," in which they find common ground with the help of longtime Soviet propagandist and future star of liberal post-Soviet TV, Vladimir Pozner (1934-).

Mikhail Gorbachev’s (1931-2022) speech before a gathering of state media leaders on 14 March 1986, in which he named the Soviet media as the driver of perestroika’s success—positioning it as both a revolutionary force for public awakening and a loyal partner to the Party.

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

A 1991 title screen for the sketch comedy program Maski-Show (Mask Show, 1991-2006) showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.

In 1995, the Boris Yeltsin puppet made its debut on the influential political satire show Kukly (Dolls or Puppets), which ran from 1994-2002 on NTV.