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“It’s all Chubais’ fault!”
The political satire show "Kukly [Puppets]" mocks Anatoly Chubais, a key architect of the disastrous early-1990s Russian privatization push known as "shock therapy." From Episode 47, “Hostages,” which aired on NTV on 27 January 1996.
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“500 Days: Program Summary"
A summary of the "500 Days" economic recovery program featured in a special 1990 issue of the daily paper "Komsomol'skaya pravda."
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The First (Home-Made) Post-Soviet Independent TV
The Saint Petersburg “New Artists” stage a meeting of the committee “anti-state of emergency” on their “Pirate Television,” declaring their support of Yeltsin against the group of communist hardliners who led the coup d’etat against Gorbachev on August 19, 1991.
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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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The pro-Yeltsin propaganda paper “God Forbid!” subjects Communist presidential candidate Gennady Zyuganov to blistering critique
An anti-Zyuganov cartoon published about a month before the first round of presidential elections in 1996 compares him to a Godzilla-sized dog owner training an entire city to “Beg!” for a slice of Soviet mortadella—liubitel’skaya kolbasa.
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“Iceberg,” an anti-Zyuganov television spot
An animated political ad from 1996 reminds viewers of the awfulness of the recent past, identifying Communist Gennady Zyuganov with Soviet brutality and empty sloganeering.
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