People: Zhirinovsky, Vladimir
LGBTQ activist Yaroslav “Slava” Mogutin’s response to another article on gay men in post-Soviet Russia (by Aelita Efimova) in the magazine Совершенно секретно.
An article on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of Masha Gessen in Russia
Aleksandr Liubimov’s talk show One on One staged debates between public figures who disagreed strongly with each other. When nationalist provocateur Vladimir Zhirinovskii and liberal reformer Boris Nemtsov met on air in as the First Chechen War was just beginning, sparks—and piece of the set—flew.