Explore: Year » 1998

The Making of an Anti-Bourgeois Hero

Excerpt from an early episode (the second) of a new version of the popular talk show Vzgliad, co-hosted by Aleksandr Liubimov and Sergey Bodrov Jr., which aired weekly on the TV channel ORT in 1996-1999.

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The World Made of Plastic Has Won

Egor Letov performs his song “Moia oborona” (My defense), during his “concert in the hero city Leningrad,” part of Grazhdanskaia oborona’s 1994 tour Russkii proryv (Russian breakthrough).

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Issue #1 of “Radek”, 1994

The first issue of the actionist magazine Radek featured, on its cover, four strategically denuded men standing in front of the charred façade of the Russian White House—a recent casualty of the 1993 Constitutional Crisis. 

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The Future of Crimea

Campaign documents surrounding the 1991-92 referenda on the independence of Crimea, Ukraine.

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The Non-Governmental Control Committee, "Barricade," Bolshaia Nikitinskaia street, 1998

A group of artists, organized by Anatoly Osmolovsky, barricades Bolshaia Nikitinskaia street, about 150 meters from the Kremlin. 

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Megapolis-Ekspress: Urban Exoticism and National Pride

Igor Dudinsky takes over the magazine Megapolis-ekspress and turns it into an extreme and surreal parody of the lowest and most excessively sensationalist forms of Western tabloids.

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