Clip from "Pro Eto," a talk show hosted by Yelena Khanga, which brings together 1990s-era interest in sex with the increasing visibility of disabled people—and the disintegration of state institutions previously entrusted with their care.

A clip from an episode on male prostitution featured on the talk show Pro eto (About That, 1997-2000) hosted by journalist Yelena Khanga (1962-).

Two shirtless men light cigarettes in the course of a dance performance “illustrating” homosexuality on a homophobia-themed episode of Yelena Khanga’s sexuality-focused talk show Pro Eto.

"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

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.

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.