Explore: Year » 1990

Mumiy Troll's Breakthrough “Utekai (Take Off)" Becomes the 1997 Song of the Year

Mumiy Troll’s 1997 breakthrough song “Utekai” (Take off) displayed the combination of surrealism, dark humor, and provincial romanticism that defined the band’s trademark style.

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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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Tanks in Lithuania (Draft)

Pravda coverage of Soviet tanks in Vilnius, January 1991

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Dmitri Vrubel, "My God, Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love", 1990, graffiti, Berlin Wall, East Berlin.

Graffiti of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing on the East Berlin wall.

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The First (Home-Made) Post-Soviet Independent TV

The Saint Petersburg “New Artists” stage a meeting of the committee “anti-state of emergency” on their “Pirate Television,” declaring their support of Yeltsin against the group of communist hardliners who led the coup d’etat against Gorbachev on August 19, 1991.

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Novikov's Shocking Coming Out (Draft)

During an interview, Timur Novikov and Sergey "Afrika" Bugaev talk about their otherwise unconfessed homosexuality in an intentionally shocking way.

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