Аннотация:Russian television series production began in the late 1990s with crime shows such as Cops: Streets of Broken Lights (Menty: Ulitsy razbitykh fonarei, season one, 1998) and Gangster Petersburg (Banditsky Peterburg, 2000). These series identified market reforms with the rise of organized crime and privatized violence. Both take place in St. Petersburg—the gateway of Russia’s westernization. In the 2000s, the focus of crime shows shifted to a reflection about the 1990s as the recent history, and to a greater interest in the Soviet past.