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Nautilus Pompilius perform “Last Letter (Good-bye America)” in 1988

This 1988 televised performance of Nautilus Pompilius's “Last Letter” captures the band’s cultural disillusionment with Western ideals, prefiguring post-Soviet anti-Americanism. 

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The Making of an Anti-Bourgeois Hero

Excerpt from an early episode (the second) of a new version of the popular talk show Vzgliad, co-hosted by Aleksandr Liubimov and Sergey Bodrov Jr., which aired weekly on the TV channel ORT in 1996-1999.

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Aleksei Balabanov's "Brother" (1997)

Aleksei Balabanov's cult crime drama, which made its title character, the loveable killer Danila Bagrov into a youth idol and a national emblem of post-Soviet masculinity

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Aleksei Balabanov's "Brother 2" (2000)

The 2000 sequel to Balabanov’s (1959-2013) cult 1990s-era neo-noir, Brother, brought its heroes to Chicago, where they took on both American and Ukrainian villains. 

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A 1997 interview with Sergei Bodrov, Jr. (1971-2002)

The actor and TV host Sergei Bodrov, Jr. is interviewed shortly after the release of Aleksei Balabanov’s (1959-2013) cult gangster film, Brother.

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Auktsyon performs “Alive” (Zhivoi) at the 8th Leningrad Rock Club Festival, 14 March 1991

As an art-jazz-rock collective, Auktsyon was a genre-blending musical and performance phenomenon within the Leningrad underground, distinguishing itself from other bands in both longevity and stylistic variation. Throughout the post-Soviet period, Auktsyon gradually increased the antiestablishment content of its music, while maintaining a veneer of ideological ambiguity. 

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