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The Russian Booker—Scandals
A series of five articles scandalously decrying the Russian Booker, the new literary prize imported from England.
Pugacheva and “Filipp's Spermatozoid” in Express-Gazette, 1998
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.
SpidInfo #1, January 1991
The cover of the first issue of the early 1990s magazine SpidInfo, with an anxious nude couple turned away from one another in bed.
Top Secret: Investigative Journalism and True Crime During Perestroika
Sovershenno sekretno, the first privately owned periodical in Soviet Russia since 1917, showcased a combination of transparency and sensationalism that became a distinguishing feature of journalistic writing in the post-Soviet period.
Alla Pugacheva—Post-Soviet Diva
The most famous woman in the Soviet Union transformed into a successful post-Soviet star.
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.