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Aleksei Balabanov's "Brother" (1997)

Aleksei Balabanov's cult crime drama, which made its title character, the loveable killer Danila Bagrov into a youth idol and a national emblem of post-Soviet masculinity

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A 1997 interview with Sergei Bodrov, Jr.

Interview with actor Sergei Bodrov Jr., who famously played the loveable gangster Danila Bagrov in Aleksei Balabanov’s films Brother and Brother 2, becoming a post-Soviet cultural icon.

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Parkan: Chronicles of an Empire

Parkan is a cult video game notable for its immense ambition. A multi-genre game, Parkan tried to encompass the genres of space exploration, adventure, planetary landings, and alien diplomacy a decade before Western AAA blockbusters like Mass Effect (2007) succeeded at commercializing similar aims.

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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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Georgii Deliev, "Mask Show [Maski Show]," 1991-2006.

A 1991 title screen for the sketch comedy program Maski-Show (Mask Show, 1991-2006) showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.

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