A 1994 article, published in the weekly magazine Megapolis Express, on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of M. Gessen (then known as Masha) in Russia.

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. 

A 1991 title screen for the sketch comedy program Maski-Show (Mask Show, 1991-2006) showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.

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

Graffiti of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing on the Berlin Wall, from the East Berlin side.

A poster, rendered in the style of Soviet agit-prop, but promoting the “Beer Lovers’ Party.”