A clip from the most-watched entertainment show of the 1990s, "Pole chudes [Field of Wonders],” featuring the post-Soviet “narod” (people) of regular folks engaged in a free-flowing relationship with both capitalism and Russia’s Central Television.

A clip from “Politburo,” a weekly commentary show from Aleksandr Politkovsky, a former host of “Vzgliad.” This episode aired in the days following the April referendum that solidified Yeltsin’s position, and, in particular, follows People’s Deputy (and Yeltsin opponent) Alexander Rutskoy's first salvo in the so-called "Kompromat Wars," in which he made public 11 suitcases’ worth of material allegedly documenting Yeltsin's corruption. The episode ends with some May Day-themed anti-communist “chastushki” (Russian limericks).

An excerpt from the art show “Matador,” created in 1990 by “ViD”'s junior partner, Konstantin Ernst (1961-). This clip derives from an episode on contemporary art and boasts a joyously elitist feel consistent with “ViD”’s "New-Russian" ethos.

Journalist and LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin responds, in the monthly magazine Top Secret (Sovershenno sekretno), to Aelita Efimova’s homophobic article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia from the same publication. 

Anatoly Kashpirovsky (1939-), a “psychic” authority on perestroika-era "new thinking," uses the power of suggestion to heal the Soviet people of ailments physical and spiritual.

A late-Soviet article, published in the mainstream paper Literaturnaia gazeta, on the topic of the ongoing AIDS epidemic.