The center of the post-Soviet book trade established itself in the corridors of the enormous stadium built for the 1980s summer Olympic Games in Moscow. It was chaotic, even dangerous, but also presented an embarrassment of literary riches.

In 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn staged a theatrical return to Russia, flying from America to Magadan, then returning by train from Vladivostok to Moscow. The journey and the salvific importance Solzhenitsyn attached to it soon became the target of much derision, as well as some praise.

Interview with LGBTQ activist—and sometime spouse of far-right philosopher Alexander Dugin (1962-)—Evgenia Debryanskaya (1953-) in the newspaper "Argumenty i fakty."

A clip from the talk show "Pro Eto" with Elena Khanga, episode on male prostitution.

An annotated map of gay locales (cafes, bars, nightclubs, saunas, and cruising areas or "pleshki" in a 1997 issue of the gay magazine Арго

A piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Мальчишник