An infamous 1994 article on the First Chechen War by controversial gay journalist Slava Mogutin, published in Novyi vzgliad (New View).

A 1994 article, published in the weekly magazine Megapolis Express, on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of M. Gessen (then known as Masha) in Russia.

A 1994 piece in the monthly magazine Sovershenno sekretno (Top Secret) in which a (presumably) heterosexual female journalist, Aelita Efimova, responds to the emergence of a gay subculture in early post-Soviet Russia.

A 1994 letter to readers from the editor of a regional Ural newspaper, Gay Dialogue. 

For almost a month in 1990, a student named S. Piskunov documented regional shortages in a "kitchen diary," responding to “Komsomol’skaia pravda”'s call for readers to track the impacts of Gorbachev's economic reforms on daily life.

Popular film magazines like Soviet Screen (Sovetskii ekran) were instrumental in establishing rock musicians as cultural icons. Volume 7, from 1987, places Konstantin Kinchev (1958-), frontman of the Leningrad band Alisa, on the cover of its “youth issue” (molodezhnyi vypusk) in an effort to promote Valerii Ogorodnikov’s film The Burglar (Vzlomshchik, 1987), in which Kinchev plays the lead role.