The winter 1992 opening broadcast of the amateur variety and improv contest show “KVN” (“the Club of the Jolly and Resourceful”). Filmed just a few months after the dissolution of the USSR, the episode features former Soviet university teams lamenting the new national borders appearing all around them.

Journalist Sergei Sholokhov (1958-) interviews rock star Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990) and film critic Natalia Razlogova (1956-) at the Golden Duke Film Festival in Odesa in September 1988. 

This 1988 televised performance of Nautilus Pompilius's “Last Letter” captures the band’s cultural disillusionment with Western ideals, prefiguring post-Soviet anti-Americanism. 

Aleksei Balabanov's cult crime drama, which made its title character, the loveable killer Danila Bagrov into a youth idol and a national emblem of post-Soviet masculinity

The 2000 sequel to Balabanov’s (1959-2013) cult 1990s-era neo-noir, Brother, brought its heroes to Chicago, where they took on both American and Ukrainian villains. 

The Oscar-nominated animated short film “Gagarin,” directed by Alexei Kharitidi for Pilot, a Moscow-based animation studio.