During the post-Soviet 1990s, a popular political-satire show called Kukly ran on the Russian independent network NTV. Then-President Boris Yeltsin, for example, was regularly depicted as a feeble ...
This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 18 episode of “The Briefing with Jen Psaki.” In 1999, the Russian puppet comedy show “Kukly” ran a sketch depicting then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The ...
MOSCOW -- Boris Yeltsin was a courageous fighter, an instinctive democrat who helped dismantle the vast totalitarian apparatus of the Soviet state and its monolithic Communist Party, freeing millions ...