A Man Who Keeps Up with the Times

A piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Мальчишник

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Ivan Zhaba: Russian Superman

A major installation artwork by Alexander Shaburov engaged with the Western Superhero genre through a multimedia hagiography of a Russian superman.

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The Black Series from Vagrius

The book series “Contemporary Russian Prose” or the “Black Series,” published by Vagrius—one of post-Soviet Russia’s most successful commercial publishers—made bestsellers out of literary prose.

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An Online Babylon: Vavilon.ru

Vavilon, or Babylon, began as a loose group of young poets brought together by Dmitry Kuzmin in 1988. In the post-Soviet years, the group's almanac, and then website, became a driving force behind some of the most innovative poetry of the 1990s.

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Chumak sends morning healing vibes to perestroika-era audiences

A healing seance with TV-psychic Allan Chumak in 1989, during the morning newscast, “120 Minutes.” Works on people, their drinking water and their creams.

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Kino’s last concert (Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow)

Footage of a live Kino concert at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium on June 24, 1990, roughly a month and half prior to frontman Viktor Tsoi's death in a car accident in rural Latvia. The footage shows the band at the very height of its popularity, as well as offering an unencumbered look at a country in transition: a heavy and conspicuous Soviet police detail is assigned to the event, while audience members wave both the Soviet flag and the Russian tricolor banner.

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