The most famous woman in the Soviet Union transformed into a successful post-Soviet star.

The cult radio program Transilvania bespokoit (Transilvania speaking) creates an alternative musical canon and produces a new nationalist counterpublic.

The Moscow-based, English-language magazine the eXile combined gonzo journalism and stiob to provide unique reporting on post-Soviet Russia. At the same time, the outlet fetishized the very 1990s-era lawlessness or bespredel—not to mention Western sexual and economic exploitation of Russia—that it nominally denounced and condemned.