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Perestroika (/ ˌ p ɛr ə ˈ s t r ɔɪ k ə / PERR-ə-STROY-kə; Russian: перестройка, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə] ⓘ) [1] was a political reform movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the late 1980s, widely associated with CPSU general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "transparency") policy reform.
[10] [11] In 1919, a concentration camp of forced labour for women was created in Petrograd; 6,500 women are estimated to have passed through as prisoners, 60% of them suspected of prostitution. [7] At the same time attempts were made to rehabilitate prostitutes as "victims of the capitalist system". [ 7 ]
Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union.Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges of Joseph Stalin, where the Soviet government attempted to erase some of the purged figures from Soviet history, and took measures which included altering images and destroying film.
Alexander Nevsky, medieval Russian Prince, saint and national hero, one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia (with his brother and father) Ivan Petlin, first Russian to reach China on an official diplomatic mission, left a popular description of his journey; Grigory Potanin, explorer of Mongolia, Tibet and China
Since 2014, hundreds of Russian oligarchs and their companies have been hit with US sanctions for their support of "the Russian government's malign activity around the globe". [5] [6] In 2022, many Russian oligarchs and their close family members were targeted and sanctioned by countries around the world as a rebuke of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest and performance art group based in Moscow that became popular for its provocative punk rock music which later turned into a more accessible style. Founded in the fall of 2011 by the then 22-year-old Nadya Tolokonnikova, it has had a membership of approximately 11 women.
Pages in category "Perestroika" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. ... 1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election; 1991 Russian presidential ...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Putin! is an English title [1] of the erotic calendar, released by the Russian publishing house "Fakultet" for the 58th birthday of Vladimir Putin on 7 October 2010. The calendar features twelve female students of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University (MSU), in erotic lingerie , each for every month, with a ...