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Raid at Shans. Gays triumph.

A 1996 item about a police raid at a gay nightclub from the Triangle Center LGBTQ community bulletin, Tsentr treugol’nik informatsionnyi biulleten’

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The Chechen Knot: 13 theses.

An infamous 1994 article on the First Chechen War by controversial gay journalist Slava Mogutin, published in Novyi vzgliad (New View).

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Human Chain Across the Baltic Republics

Pravda’s (1911-) coverage of the Human Chain on 24 August 1989, documenting the previous day’s political action by hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians, who linked together in a 600-kilometer-long “living chain” (zhivaia tsep’) that stretched from Tallinn, Estonia to Vilnius, Lithuania. 

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Lyube performing "Atas" during a televised concert on January 1, 1990

The rock band, which Vladimir Putin would later count as among his "favorites," performing on late-Soviet television on the cusp of rock stardom.

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Lyube "Stop Fooling Around, America!" (Ne Valiai Duraka, Amerika!) music video

Music video for the fourth track on Lyube’s second studio album Who Said We Lived Poorly? (Kto skazal, chto my plokho zhili?), which was released in 1992. Written from the perspective of the Russo-Soviet “common man,” while using folk vernacular, the song explores questions of Alaska’s historical and territorial integrity – lamenting its sale to the United States and demanding its return while celebrating Russia’s national character.

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Tanks in Lithuania

Coverage of Soviet tanks rolling into the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in January 1991 from Pravda, the Russian Communist Party’s press organ since 1911.

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