Journalism (Video)
Pro Eto - The Sexual Lives of the Disabled
Clip from Pro Eto hosted by Elena Khanga that brings together 1990s interest in sex with the increasing visibility of disabilities and the disintegration of state institutions previously entrusted with their care.
Early Vzgliad parodies itself
A 1988 celebration of a year of Vzgliad, where several sketch comedy artists parody and recapitulate Vzgliad's casual, sincere, freewheeling style of television programming
A coup d'etat holds a press conference
Press conference held by the State Committee for the Emergency Situation (GKChP), the group of hard line government officials who had attempted a coup d'etat overthrowing Mikhail Gorbachev. This press conference was held the next day and shows the coup coming apart at the seams.
“Go buy some food… for the last time!” Yeltsin takes on Zyuganov in the 1996 presidential election
An anti-Zyuganov campaign poster from 1996
Vzgliad at GKChP
Clips of Vzgliad's reports during GKChP in 1991. These include being holed up in the White House (the RSFSR parliament) alongside its defenders and celebrities, such as Mstislav Rostropovich.
Putting the "Spotlight" on an experimental three-hour line for Soviet luxury clothes
Prozhektor Perestroiki [Perestroika's Spotlight], a glasnost-era televised investigative journalism project, investigates a three-hour line for luxury clothes at the recently opened Luxe Fashion Center, where the reporters discover the problem of supply and demand in the USSR.
"Can't Live Like This": Imperial nostalgia as a post-Soviet Russian project
Tak zhit' nel'zia [Can't Live Like This], excerpt from Stanislav Govorukhin's influential documentary on the late Perestroika malaise and the way out of it
"Our boys" fight against "fascist" Baltic independence
"Nashi [Our Boys]"- Alexander Nevzorov's propagandistic documentary of the Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet OMON, fighting off the local independence movement in early 1991
Shevchuk (DDT) in Chechnya
Excerpt from Vremia DDT, a 2002 documentary centered on DDT, one of Russia’s most famous rock bands throughout the 1990s and later. A montage of amateur film made by the group leader and frontman, Yuri Shevchuk during his visit to Russian frontlines during the First Chechen War in 1995-1996, overlaid by the song, “Patsany [The guys],” inspired by what Shevchuk saw there.
"A Man Resembling the Chief Prosecutor"
An example of the "Kompromat War": a sex video of the Chief Prosecutor Iurii Skuratov, aired on the nightly news show "Vesti." Skuratov was recorded with two sex workers in a KGB/FSB apartment, with the material sent directly to RTR news. It is widely assumed that Yeltsin's operatives were behind this video leak.
The Glasnost Booth on the last October Revolution anniversary in the USSR
“Glas naroda [The People’s Voice]”– a booth installed in the middle of town, into which random people can enter and speak their minds. Episode from the Kremlin, on USSR’s last anniversary of the October Revolution, in 1991.
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Vremia reports on Chernobyl, excerpt TBD
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Vesti (first episode, excerpt TBD)
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Yeltsin 'sleeps through' Ireland
Footage of the Shannon diplomatic incident and/or Yeltsin’s justification of same, September 1994. More specifically: 25 seconds of TV footage of Yeltsin confronting reporters in Vnukovo-2 in which he says, “Я скажу честно: я просто проспал, восемнадцать часов в полете, до этого, понимаешь, значит, столько не спал, а служба безопасности не пустила тех людей которые, так сказать, э-э-э, должны меня были разбудить. Я, конечно, разберусь. Им врежу, как следует.”
Evgeny Kiselev discusses the 21 September – 4 October 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis on Itogi, 10 October 1993
Excepts from first episode of Itogi with Ev. Kiselev on NTV
Evgeny Kiselev intervenes in the “Xerox affair,” 20 June 1996
Kiselev special broadcast on "Xerox affair"
Tusovka Music Journal (Samizdat)
A central zine of the Siberian underground music community. One of Tusovka's central feats was duping the KGB into allowing the continuation of its publication and dissemination. Before the first issue went to print, the journal's founder Valerii Murzin took the bold step of delivering the pre-print manuscript of the journal to his local KGB office, in this way guaranteeing the publication's survival.
Interview with Sergei Bodrov Jr. (1997) (selections)
Interview with actor Sergei Bodrov Jr., who famously played the loveable gangster Danila Bagrov in Aleksei Balabanov’s films Brother and Brother 2, becoming a post-Soviet cultural icon.
Meaning of pluralism on Vzgliad
A conversation about pluralism between Evgeny Dodolev and Alexander Liubimov, after an expose on Nina Andreeva
"What is Concealed Will Be Revealed." Kuryokhin's and Dugin's Post-Ironic Political Campaign in Saint Petersburg
An episode from Dugin's political campaign in Saint Petersburg, in which Sergey Kuryokhin and Aleksandr Dugin make fun of liberal democracy (and Yeltsin’s referendum) on Russian TV.
Limonov Becomes a Post-Soviet Nationalist Rock Star
During an “encounter” with the émigré writer Eduard Limonov broadcasted from the concert hall in the Ostankino TV studios in Moscow (a common genre during perestroika), a young neformal in the audience suggests to create a subculture made up of young “limonovians.”
"The Mysteries of the Century": Post-Truth and Mystical Nazism on Russian TV
An episode from the TV program “Tainy veka” (The mysteries of the century), hosted by Iurii Vorobevskii and Aleksandr Dugin. One of the first examples of post-truth on Russian television.