Launched at the same time as the Russian Booker and funded by the newly minted oligarch Boris Berezovsky (1946-2013), the Triumph Prize promised an even broader program of cultural guardianship and philanthropy.

A Russian translation of an article by American scholar Simon Karlinsky (1925-2009) on the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), published in the LGBTQ magazine Tema.

M. Gessen interview with Yelena Bonner (1923-2011), wife of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident and nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), published in the LGBTQ magazine Tema.

A clip from the talk show "Tema [Theme]," Vladislav Listyev's (1956-1995) major post-Soviet project after the 1991 end of “Vzgliad.” This episode centers on racism in Russia and includes guest Dzheims (James) Lloydovich Patterson (1933-), who played an interracial baby in the classic Stalin-era musical comedy Circus (1936).

A series of articles from the nascent “Kommersant Daily” dating to late 1992/ early 1993 sought to assess the paper’s target audience, the wealthy class of so-called “New Russians.”