In 1991, the actionist group E.T.A. (standing for Expropriation of the Territory of Art”) staged a performance in which they used their bodies to form an obscene word in front of the Kremlin.

The first issue of the actionist magazine Radek featured, on its cover, four strategically denuded men standing in front of the charred façade of the Russian White House—a recent casualty of the 1993 Constitutional Crisis. 

A group of artists, organized by Anatoly Osmolovsky, barricades Bolshaia Nikitinskaia street, about 150 meters from the Kremlin. 

In 1999, Anatoly Osmolovsky and the artists’ collective known as the Non-Governmental Control Commission staged an artistic and political action in which group members displayed a banner reading “Against Everyone” while standing atop Lenin's Mausoleum. 

Svetlana Baskova captures the surreal, deeply violent, and grotesque essence of the 1990s and the Chechen wars in her cult trash movie, "Zelenyi slonik" (The little green elephant, 1999).