Organized crime had been rampant in the dying Soviet Union for years, fueled by economic shortages and corruption. Around the time Burkard was documenting the Soviet mafia, there were up to 5,000 gangs plundering the state, and every 22 minutes a person was murdered.
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Defiling the Children, 1993
In June 21, 1993 issue of Time, the magazine published a cover story on the rise of prostitution around the world. Questions were being asked about the authenticity of some photographs in Moscow.
Editorial: On Olympics, Sochi 2014, and Political Games
Ok. You know what I am going to rant about here. This: Russia’s grand vanity oligarchic […]
How do you tell a lie with photos?
Clever digital manipulation is not necessary — strategic release of photos often sufficed — to create […]
Bloody Sunday, 1905
The 20th Century opened with Russia slowly teetering towards disenchantment and chaos. Emancipation of serfs in 1861 […]
Yeltsin dances
On June 10th 1996, Alexander Zemlianichenko captured in a photo that would eventually win a […]
Lenin in Stockholm
To the Russians, Vladimir Ulyanov was already a living symbol in 1917. Ulyanov – now […]
Gennady Ivanovich Yanayev (1937 – 2010)
Along with Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank, it was one of the iconic images […]
The Conflict on the Ussuri
For a few unsettling months in 1969, tensions between two nuclear powers reached fever-pinch. On […]
The Execution of Masha Bruskina
In October 1941, at Minsk, Belorussia (then occupied by the Nazis), a 17-year-old Soviet Jewish partisan Masha […]