Kukly ["Dolls'], still from episode 2 “The Old New Year” (01/07/1995) featuring the first appearance of Boris Yeltsin’s puppet on the show.

Still from Dolls"/"Kukly", 1994-2002, an influential political satire showing several politicians as puppets.

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"Tsoi's Wall" on Arbat

A wall of fan graffiti dedocated to the late Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi on Moscow's famous Arbat Street.

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Meaning of pluralism on Vzgliad

A conversation about pluralism between Evgeny Dodolev and Alexander Liubimov, after an expose on Nina Andreeva

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Love is Nasty, It Can Make you Fall in Love with An Asshole

Item in Правда about Slava Mogutin’s attempt to register marriage to partner Robert Filipini

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Ernst’s “Russian Project” as cultural therapy for the post-Soviet Russian masses

Konstantin Ernst’s series of social advertisements extolling Russia’s shared values and national identity at a time of seeming social crisis in the mid-1990s

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Yeltsin's Culler (Sanitar Yeltsina)

Delo Muryleva. Smert' za kvartiry (The Murylev case. Death for Apartments). First episode of the crime show Kriminal'naia Rossiia (NTV, 1995-2002, with various later versions on TVS, Pervyi kanal, and others)

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