A 1993 article from the journal Gay, slaviane that disputed accounts of Tchaikovsky having killed himself out of fear of being publicly outed as a homosexual.

A pseudoscientific article on “cures” or “treatments” for homosexuality, published in 1994 in the storied tabloid daily Komsomolskaya pravda (est. 1925).

An interview with a gay activist known as “Yuri Eremeev” published in the monthly journal Smena (Shift) in 1992. 

Campaign documents surrounding the 1991-92 referenda on the independence of Crimea, Ukraine.

The most famous woman in the Soviet Union transformed into a successful post-Soviet star.

Igor Dudinsky takes over the magazine Megapolis-ekspress and turns it into an extreme and surreal parody of the lowest and most excessively sensationalist forms of Western tabloids.