Portfolio Category: 1992

Scandals was one of many supermarket tabloid-type papers that appeared during perestroika, assembled, as one editor told me, by taking … Continue ReadingСкандалы (Scandals), November 1992

This is a “Russian legal social-political newspaper printed since October 1989.” Its subject is crime, police, prisons, and general mayem, … Continue Readingщит и меч (Shield and Sword), 15 October 1992

Here is a special edition of Thought, the newspaper of the Russian Party of Communists, commemorating the 75th anniversary of … Continue ReadingМысль (Thought), 7 November 1992

This is a business monthly with a catchy motto: “Commercial Realism, Advertising Romanticism.” It is a publication of the International … Continue ReadingВаш Капитал (Your Capital, August 1992)

In European folklore this sea bird has symbolized the approach of stormy weather. In the 19th century, as multiple “storms” … Continue ReadingБуревестник (Storm Petrel), October 1992