Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

I spent several hours watching a BBC documentary on pirated on YouTube about post-Soviet Russia.

Here is a selection of still images I captured from the documentary that I think illustrate some poignant moments.

• Extreme poverty, equity vouchers
• Striking miners, in Ukraine
• On fertility/population growth/abortion
• Auctioning off government assets
• Chechens/Chechnya
• Chechen gangsters
• Cosmonauts & economic collapse
• Grozny
• Ukraine elections, Leonid Kuchma
• Money-making, post-Soviet Union
• Price liberalisation
• Yegor Gaidar
• Boris Yeltsin, drunk
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky
• More Boris Zhirinovsky
• Invasion of Chechnya, parallels with Ukraine invasion
• Invasion of Chechnya, part 2
• Democratic failure
• Zhirinovsky Victimhood

Extreme poverty, equity vouchers

Striking miners, in Ukraine

On fertility/population growth/abortion

Auctioning off government assets

Chechens/Chechnya

Chechen gangsters

Cosmonauts & economic collapse

Grozny

Ukraine elections, Leonid Kuchma

Money-making, post-Soviet Union

Price liberalisation

Yegor Gaidar

Boris Yeltsin, drunk

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

More Boris Zhirinovsky

Invasion of Chechnya, parallels with Ukraine invasion

Invasion of Chechnya, part 2

Democratic failure

Zhirinovsky Victimhood