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Oligarchs collude for Yeltsin in 1996
“A Way Out of the Dead End,” an op-ed co-authored by prominent Russian “oligarchs” and published in the Wall Street Journal-like daily “Kommersant” in April 1996, which announced their intention to use their considerable media resources to sink the Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the upcoming 1996 presidential election.
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Petrovich, the Soviet everyman, survives post-Soviet Russia in “Kommersant”
A collection of "Petrovich" cartoons by Andrei Bil’zho published in Russia’s “first business newspaper,” “Kommersant.” Bil’zho’s drawings depict a hapless and repulsive comic personage, born and raised in the Soviet era but trying to get his bearings in post-Soviet capitalism.
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"New Russians" at “Kommersant”
A series of articles from the nascent “Kommersant Daily” dating to late 1992/ early 1993 sought to assess the paper’s target audience, the wealthy class of so-called “New Russians.”
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The View from the Other Side
LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin’s response to another article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia (by Aelita Efimova) in the magazine Совершенно секретно.
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AIDS: More Questions than Answers
Late-Soviet mainstream-press article about the AIDS epidemic (from the newspaper Литературная газета)
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Two Lives, Two Destinies. Sketch of S.E. Esenin and N. Kliuev
Article about the love affair between and the literary destinies of the poets Sergei Esenin and Nikolai Kliuev in the literary supplement to the gay newspaper 1/10
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