[4][5][6] In the 1990s the newspaper had the largest circulation among the foreign-language press in the United States, even ahead of Spanish-language publications.
During these years, Konstantin Kuzminsky, Vladimir Kozlovsky, Gennady Katsov, Alexander Genis, Mikhail Epshtein and others worked with the newspaper.
From 2006 to 2008 the weekly version of the newspaper was published in Moscow for distribution in Russia and other countries of the former USSR.
[7] On April 10, 2009, the last daily issue was released and the newspaper began to appear as a weekly published in conjunction with the New York Times on Fridays.
[9] Before its closure in 2010 the newspaper, together with the editors of Novy Zhurnal, became the founder of the O. Henry Gift of the Magi Literary Prize.