A 1998 cover of the tabloid Express-Gazette featuring pop stars Alla Pugacheva (1949-) and her then-husband, Filipp Kirkorov (1967-) embracing next to a headline speculating about the viability of Kirkorov's sperm. 

The Moscow-based, English-language magazine the eXile combined gonzo journalism and stiob to provide unique reporting on post-Soviet Russia. At the same time, the outlet fetishized the very 1990s-era lawlessness or bespredel—not to mention Western sexual and economic exploitation of Russia—that it nominally denounced and condemned.