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Joe Bernstein

My Strange, Seductive Stint as the Hugh Hefner of Moscow

By: Vijai Maseshwari   |   Narratively   |   Sept 2022
'As a disillusioned cub reporter, I jumped at the bizarro job of a lifetime: editor-in-chief of Playboy Russia when nouveau riche Moscow was a hedonistic playground of sex, drugs, and early-stage capitalsm — until Putin’s rise brought my reign to a screeching halt.'