Explore: Year » 1993

Nikita Skripkin and Locis Studio's "Perestroika" video game (1990-1998)

Perestroika, the puzzle game based on the eponymous series of late-Soviet political reforms, heralded a new, weird age in Russian gaming in its inexplicable attempt to represent the ongoing political turmoil via the reductive means of traversing colorful islands to prosperity. 

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Vyacheslav Marychev, "Actor" of the Russian Duma

During a Duma session, Marychev cocks a gun while wearing sunglasses and a Megadeth t-shirt tucked into high-waisted slacks

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The Raspberry Blazer

The origins and significance of the raspberry blazer as an iconic element of the “New-Russian” wardrobe in the early 1990s.

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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. 

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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. 

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Gorodok (Little Town): 1993-2012

The1996 title screen of "Little Town [Gorodok]," a hit sketch comedy show created by Yuri Stoyanov and Ilya Oleinikov. 

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