Soviet paper shortages, new computer technologies, and the lifting of censorship come together in an unexpected way in this proposal to preserve manuscripts of unpublished authors for posterity.

A series of 15-second TV spots advertising post-Soviet Russia's most successful pyramid scheme, MMM. The scheme's popularity derived from the simple action-reward structure of the TV spots, which presented a simultaneously winking and sincere vision of capitalist utopia.

Kommersant attempted to represent the 90s market economy via a Monopoly-like of two economies, an inner and an outer, with racketeering as a recurring threat.

An excerpt from a compilation of memorable moments with Vladislav Listyev (1956-1995) and his liberal guests on "Chas Pik," aired in the week after his murder.

The early-to-mid 1990s saw an explosion of chewing gum packaging featuring all sorts of imagery, much of it seemingly irrelevant to the underlying product. Inserts might include film stills from The Godfatheror Jurassic Park, pornographic pictures, or, in this case, characters from New Zealand cartoonist Kim Casali’s syndicated “Love Is…” series, which originally dated to the 1960s and ’70s.