Political advertising (Video)

Referendum 1993: the "Yes Yes No Yes" campaign

Da, Da, Net, Da- Agitational propaganda for the 1993 referndum, "Yes, yes, no, yes"- note the slogan at the end, "we are building a new Russia!"

"Eleven Suitcases of Kompromat"

Rutskoi's speech, regarding "11 suitcases of kompromat," proving the corruption of Yeltsin's team– the first salvo in the 'Kompromat wars,' as a counterattack to Yeltsin's "Yes Yes No Yes" referendum.

Grigory Yavlinsky of the Yabloko Party runs for president, 1996

Grigory Yavlinsky’s absurd 11-minute 1996 presidential campaign ad

Ernst’s “Russian Project” as cultural therapy for the post-Soviet Russian masses

Konstantin Ernst’s series of social advertisements extolling Russia’s shared values and national identity at a time of seeming social crisis in the mid-1990s

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.

Stalin, Beria, Gulag: Natsboly against Gaidar and Mikhalkov

Two of the early direct actions organized by the young members of the NBP that combined self-martyrdom and totalitarian styob.