Russia in 90th (20 photos) Bashny.Net

Photographer Lucian Perkins for 20 years covered the events in Russia and other former Soviet countries. He first came to Moscow in 1988 on the instructions of the newspaper «Washington Post» for illuminating the historic meeting of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1993 he again came to Russia for six months. "I like to visit two different countries" - he recalls.

1. Single-communist protester walking down the street strewn with stones after a bloody clash with the police in 1993.



2. Beaten Communist with a portrait of Joseph Stalin during the march to the Red Square in May 1993.



3. Sailor with his girlfriend on the Navy Day celebration in Moscow's Central Park of Culture and Rest. Gorky, 1993.

4. Dancing people in a Moscow nightclub, 1993.

5. Standing in an embrace in the waters of the Moskva River, the girls are waiting for their turn at the baptism of ministers Russian Baptist Church, 1993.



6. A crowd of young people, restrained by police during a rock concert in Red Square in 1993.



7. Under the laughter inmates repeat offender demonstrates pinned over the years punishment tattoos. Correctional labor colony of strict regime in Carpet, 240 km from Moscow, 1993.



8. Women and children fleeing from the police raid on a gypsy camp in the forest near Moscow, 1993. Law enforcement agencies have found while documents, money and jewelry, apparently stolen from foreigners.



9. Crowds of people came together to look at the tanks surrounded the State Duma during the confrontation Yeltsin and parliament in 1993.



10. Protesters look at the tanks heading to the State Duma. October, 1993.



11. Mother weeps at the funeral of his son, a soldier of the elite special forces of the Russian riot police, who was killed in October 1993 Godea during capture Yeltsin armed forces loyal to the Houses of Parliament.



12. After the collapse of the USSR in many former Soviet republics, including Georgia, civil war broke out. In the photo: ethnic Georgians fleeing the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, 1993.



13. The Georgian military and civilians who had fled Abkhazia look at flies a helicopter, 1993.



14. Pioneers during a speech Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov in the center Krasnoyarka, 1996.



15. An elderly couple with a portrait of Stalin during a rally in support of the Communist Gennady Zyuganov candidacy for the presidency. Moscow, 1996.



16. The first and last Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife Raisa fly to Samara during the 1996 presidential campaign. During those elections, Gorbachev would support only 5% of the voters.



17. Muscovites at a polling station during the first Russian presidential election of 1996. In the second round of voting President Boris Yeltsin defeated candidate



18. Cossack and passers-watching Patriarch Alexy - head of the Russian Orthodox Church, leaving a polling station during the 1996 presidential election.



19. The police beat spectators rushing to the scene during the rock concert on Red ploschadi.1996 year.



20. Yeltsin provide a warm welcome during his visit to Kazan in the framework of the presidential campaign, 1996