Portfolio Category: 1990

The masthead of this paper from Samara, a city on the Volga river over 600 miles east of Moscow, gestures … Continue ReadingОсвобождение (Liberation), No. 1, April 1990

This is the newspaper of the Moscow City Center of Songwriters, its motto: “Let’s join hands, friends!”

This daily newspaper was the “Organ of the Central Committee of the USSR, and the Supreme Soviet and Council of … Continue ReadingСоветская Россия (Soviet Russia), Thursday, 16 August 1990

This is the first issue of the newspaper of the Press-Center of the “Moscow Memorial” society. Memorial was the principal … Continue ReadingСвобода (Freedom), No. 1, March 1990

This is an excellent example of easy, collage-style publishing: a large image of a photoshopped model from a western magazine, … Continue Readingмужские новости (Men’s News, 1992?)

This is the front page of an “independent political newspaper from the south of Russia” whose title is printed not … Continue ReadingГражданскiи Мира (Civil World/Peace—Independent Newspaper), No. 1, December 1990

This is the first issue of “Trust”, printed in Noginsk, Russia, in January of 1990. It  One headline reads: “They … Continue ReadingДоверие (Trust), January 1990

This is the student newspaper from the University of Tartu, in Estonia, whose main building appears in the photograph in … Continue ReadingСтуденческая Газета (Alma Mater), 1-15 March 1990

This “independent people’s paper” leaps back a century and half to the era of Nicholas I (reigned 1825-1855) and to … Continue ReadingСеверная пчела (Northern Bee), 18 October 1990