Footage of a live Kino concert at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on 24 June 1990, about six weeks before frontman Viktor Tsoi's death in a car accident in rural Latvia at the age of 28. We see the band at the apex of its popularity, and the country in transition: a heavy and conspicuous Soviet police detail is assigned to the event, while audience members wave both the Soviet flag and the Russian tricolor banner. 

The album art for the 1992 LP Impossible Love (Nevozmozhnaia liubov’) by Vova and the Organ of Internal Affairs (Vova i organ vnutrennikh del).

The 1994 music video for “Egoist,” a song by pop-music artist Boris Moiseev.

A 1991 edition of Eduard Limonov’s It’s Me, Eddie (1979) published by Moscow’s Glagol Press.

A 1993 article from the journal Gay, slaviane that disputed accounts of Tchaikovsky having killed himself out of fear of being publicly outed as a homosexual.

A pseudoscientific article on “cures” or “treatments” for homosexuality, published in 1994 in the storied tabloid daily Komsomolskaya pravda (est. 1925).