Explore: Year » 1997

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 for its immense ambitions. A multi-genre game, Parkan tried to encompass 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

Cover of the first issue of SpidInfo depicting an anxious nude couple turned away from each other in bed.

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Gorodok [Little Town]: 1993-2012

title screen, "Little Town"/"Gorodok" by Iurii Stoyanov and Ilya Oleinikov, 1996

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Georgii Deliev, Mask Show (Маски Шоу), 1991-2006.

title screen, "Maski-Show"/"Maski-Show", 1991 by Georgi Deliev, showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.

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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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