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TaMtAm Rock Club documentary for German television (1993)

This German television documentary captured one of Russia's first Western-style punk clubs, TaMtAm, founded in 1991 by Akvarium's Vsevolod Gakkel (1953-) after his visit to New York's CBGB.

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Yeltsin's Culler (Sanitar Yeltsina)

Delo Muryleva. Smert' za kvartiry (The Murylev case. Death for Apartments). First episode of the crime show Kriminal'naia Rossiia (NTV, 1995-2002, with various later versions on TVS, Pervyi kanal, and others)

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The Russian (Extreme Version of) MTV

Selection from the music TV show Drëma, which aired on TV-6 in 1997-98 before being shut down because of its provocative content. Hosted by Vladimir Epifantsev and Anfisa Chekhova. An early (quite experimental) example of pop culture in post-Soviet Russia.

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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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Soviet identity and Jewish Emigration on "KVN"

An excerpt from the 1992 season of the amateur variety improv competition show, “KVN,” in which an Israeli team of recent Russian émigrés competes against their former compatriots in Moscow.

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Soviet Engineers become Post-Soviet Aristocrats on TV

"Chto? Gde? Kogda?” (What? Where? When?) goes through an aristocratic overhaul and becomes an "intellectual casino.”

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