The Broken Empire - Russia's Changing Tides
 
(Left) Moscow, Russia. 1996 - Many elderly live under very poor conditions in communal flats in Moscow where they share kitchen and bathroom, and often suffer from a lack of proper heating.
 

(Right) Moscow, Russia. 1996 - Five years after Communism fell in the Soviet Regime, foreign capital restored the Petrovsky Passage indoor mall and stocked it with luxury goods produced in the West, like this brand of cosmetics, affordable only for the new rich and western foreigners.

Photograph by Gerd Ludwig
 
 
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