Long before the Myspace and “duck face” rose to prominence, teen girls with cameras were already taking photos of themselves and sending them to loved ones.
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Posts Tagged: Russia
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Revisiting Russian Youth Cultures
Teenage makes its russian premiere as the opening night film of Moscow’s Beat Film Festival tonight (June 6).
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Juvenile Delinquent Boys of Ishka, Russia
Photographs by Lise Sarfati of a colony for the reeducation of underaged delinquent boys through hard labor in Iksha, Russia, 1995.
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Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova
Red Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova, 255th Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet of Novorossiysk, was a teenage sniper.
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The First Russian Beauty Pageant
There were the Soviet Beauty Queens and then there were the Russian Beauty Queens.
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Chuvash “Girls’ Beer” Tradition
The Republic of Chuvash, or Chuvashia, is a Republic in the center of European Russia.
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Pussy Riots Everywhere
Three members of girl band Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail for reciting an anti-Putin “Punk Prayer” to the Virgin Mary last February at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral.
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Russian Riot Grrls!
Pussy Riot is an anonymous, all-female punk band and part of a larger movement of young Russians who are unhappy with the current political climate.
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Henry Parland: Nordic Rimbaud
My lies:
large, red balloons
that I buy on the street
and release into the heavens. -
Soviet Punks
Back in Soviet Russia the government controlled music, fashion, art in schools and on the streets.