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"Pravda" editors pledge to do better, 23 August 1991

Editors’ statement on the front page of iconic Soviet/ Russian daily "Pravda" from 23 August 1991, just after the failed 1991 anti-Gorbachev putsch.

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The pro-Yeltsin propaganda paper “God Forbid!” subjects Communist presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov to blistering critique

An anti-Zyuganov cartoon published about a month before the first round of presidential elections in 1996 compares him to a Godzilla-sized dog owner training an entire city to “Beg!” for a slice of Soviet mortadella—liubitel’skaya kolbasa.

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Marina Goldovskaya’s "Solovki Power" excavates painful historical memory

In 1988, journalist Marina Goldovskaya was able to release her documentary film "Solovki Power," which was dedicated to reconstructing long-suppressed memory of one of the USSR’s most notorious gulags: “Solovki.”

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