In 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn staged a theatrical return to Russia, flying from America to Magadan, then returning by train from Vladivostok to Moscow. The journey and the salvific importance Solzhenitsyn attached to it soon became the target of much derision, as well as some praise.

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