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Oligarchs collude for Yeltsin in 1996

“A Way Out of the Dead End,” an op-ed co-authored by prominent Russian “oligarchs” and published in the Wall Street Journal-like daily “Kommersant” in April 1996, which announced their intention to use their considerable media resources to sink the Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the upcoming 1996 presidential election.

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Petrovich, the Soviet everyman, survives post-Soviet Russia in “Kommersant”

A collection of "Petrovich" cartoons by Andrei Bil’zho published in Russia’s “first business newspaper,” “Kommersant.” Bil’zho’s drawings depict a hapless and repulsive comic personage, born and raised in the Soviet era but trying to get his bearings in post-Soviet capitalism.

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The meaning of pluralism on “Vzgliad”

A conversation about pluralism between Evgeny Dodolev (1957-) and Alexander Liubimov (1962-), after an expose on chemistry lecturer and anti-glasnost activist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020).

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Nina Andreeva’s “I Cannot Forsake My Principles”

Published in the 13 March 1988 issue of the daily newspaper “Sovetskaia Rossiia” (Soviet Russia), this letter by chemistry lecturer and Stalinist apologist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020) sparked tens of thousands of public responses, revealing that conservative currents in the Communist Party and beyond now faced strong resistance from a glasnost-empowered public.

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