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"A Way Out of the Dead End"
The open letter that became known as the Letter of the 13, signed by thirteen of post-Soviet Russia’s most powerful businessmen ahead of the 1996 election, was as much as anything a manifesto of the power of capital in post-Soviet politics.
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Oligarchs collude for Yeltsin in 1996
"Vyiti iz tupika [To Get Out of the Impasse]," an op-ed coauthered by Berezovsky, Gusinsky and other prominent 'oligarchs,' in which they announce their intention to use all media resources at their disposal to sink Ziuganov's chances of beating Yeltsin in the 1996 election.
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"First Glove" by Alexander Brener
Alexander Brener, "First Glove" 1995: a performance where Brener challenged Yeltsin to a fist-fight on the Red Square.
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Anatoly Osmolovsky & the Nongovernmental Control Commission, Against Everyone, 1999, Lenin’s Mausoleum
A group of people holding a banner reading "Against Everyone" stand atop Lenin's Masoleum.
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“Go buy some food… for the last time!”
An anti-Zyuganov campaign poster from the 1996 Yeltsin re-election campaign.
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Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko Party runs for president, 1996
Grigory Yavlinsky’s 11-minute presidential campaign ad from 1996.
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