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Pro Eto - The Sexual Lives of the Disabled
Clip from Pro Eto hosted by Elena Khanga that brings together 1990s interest in sex with the increasing visibility of disabilities and the disintegration of state institutions previously entrusted with their care.
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The First Article on Prostitution in the Soviet Union
"The White Dance" by Evgeny Dodolev broke a major taboo of Soviet press by reporting on the existence of foreign-currency prostitutes in the USSR. Dodolev would then go on to be a part of the "Vzgliad" team, as well as the creator of 1990s "Novyi vzgliad." "Moscovskii komsomolets," 19-21 November, 1986
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Megapolis-Ekspress: Urban Exoticism and National Pride
Igor Dudinsky takes over the magazine Megapolis-ekspress and turns it into an extreme and surreal parody of the lowest and most excessively sensationalist forms of Western tabloids.
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the eXile: Bespredel for Expats
A selection of articles from the English-language magazine the eXile, which combined gonzo journalism and styob and provided unique reporting on post-Soviet Russia, while at the same time fetishizing the 1990s lawlessness or bespredel and the Westerners’ exploitation of Russia (sexual and otherwise) that it itself denounced and condemned.
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