Lucien Perkins is a photographer who covered events in Russia for 20 years for the Washington Post. He worked since 1988 and witnessed the unrest in the 90s. Everything that happened surprised him very much, he said that it was as if he had been in two different countries.
A lone communist demonstrator walks along a stone-strewn street after a bloody clash with law enforcement, 1993.
A beaten communist holding a portrait of Joseph Stalin during a march to Red Square in May 1993.
A sailor with his girlfriend at the celebration of Navy Day in Moscow's Central Park of Culture and Leisure. Gorky, 1993.
Dancing people in a Moscow nightclub, 1993.
Standing in an embrace in the waters of the Moscow River, girls wait their turn during baptism
ministers of the Russian Baptist Church, 1993.
A crowd of young people restrained by police during a rock concert on Red Square, 1993.
To the laughter of his fellow inmates, the recidivist shows off the tattoos he received from many years of serving his sentence.
A maximum security correctional labor colony in the city of Kovrov, 240 km from Moscow, 1993.
Women and children flee a police raid on a gypsy camp in a forest near Moscow, 1993.
Law enforcement agencies then discovered documents, money and jewelry, apparently stolen from foreigners.
Crowds of people came to see the tanks that surrounded the State Duma during the confrontation between Yeltsin and parliamentarians in 1993.
Protesters look at the tanks heading towards the State Duma. October, 1993.
A mother sobs at the funeral of her son, a soldier of the elite Russian special forces OMON,
killed in October 1993 during the seizure of the Parliament building by armed forces loyal to Yeltsin.
After the collapse of the USSR, civil wars broke out in many former Soviet republics, including Georgia.
In the photo: ethnic Georgians flee the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia, 1993.
Georgian soldiers and civilians fleeing Abkhazia look at a helicopter taking off, 1993.
Pioneers during a speech by communist leader Gennady Zyuganov in the center of Krasnoyarsk, 1996.
An elderly couple with a portrait of Stalin during a communist rally in support of Gennady Zyuganov's candidacy for the presidency.
Moscow, 1996.
The first and last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his wife Raisa Maksimovna fly to Samara during the 1996 presidential campaign.
During those elections, only 5% of voters would support Gorbachev.
Muscovites at a polling station during Russia's first presidential elections in 1996.
In the second round of voting, incumbent President Boris Yeltsin defeated the candidate
A Cossack and passers-by watch Patriarch Alexy, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church,
leaving a polling station during the 1996 presidential election.
Police officers beat spectators rushing to the stage during a rock concert on Red Square. 1996.
Yeltsin receives a warm welcome during his visit to Kazan as part of the presidential campaign, 1996.
