A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times
An undated 1990s-era piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Mal’chishnik (Stag Party).
“Dear Reader” by Valery Klimov
A 1994 letter to readers from the editor of a regional Ural newspaper, Gay Dialogue.
Philosophy at the Margins
A series of philosophical and theoretical texts from Russian and international authors published by Ad Marginem, meant to bring the latest in global thought into newly opened post-Soviet minds.
An Online Babylon: Vavilon.ru
Vavilon, or Babylon, began as a loose group of young poets brought together by Dmitry Kuzmin in 1988. In the post-Soviet years, the group's almanac, and then website, became a driving force behind some of the most innovative poetry of the 1990s.
Yeltsin "sleeps through" Ireland
The aftermath of the "Shannon diplomatic incident," in which Yeltsin, having slept through a meeting with Irish leaders while his plane sat on the tarmac at the Shannon Airport, confronts Russian reporters back at Vnukovo-2 in Moscow.