In nowadays Russia, people are facing numerous manifestations of nostalgia associated with various historical events and phenomena. It could be the Stalinist USSR, the era of Perestroika, or the "dashing" versus "free" vision of the 1990s. At the same time, we see the beginning of a conversation about the 2000s with the emergence of the "stable 2000 th " mythologeme as opposed to the "dashing 1990s [Malinova 2019]. The discourse about the 2000 th turns out to be closely connected with political events and with the new cultural reality that has been emerging during that period. Artists, musicians and writers began to form a nostalgic discourse in an attempt to reflect their own youth afterwards. This process has manifested in the sphere of Russian comics as well . Comics have become a specific place for comprehending the recent past. In our paper we try to answer the next questions: how is the political represented in comics dedicated to the 1990s and 2000 th ? What is the difference between nostalgia for the 2000 th and a similar feeling towards 1990s? What social and political issues of these eras has been commemorated in graphic works? Vitaly Terletsky and Kirill Cherkay's "Jojo Bizarre Adventures", Olga Lavrentieva's "Shuv"; and Olga Kovaleva, Nikita Lavretsky's "Including her name and face" compose the research field. We argue that the fundamental distinction between comics dedicated to 2000th vs dedicated to 1990s is that the former are a space of restorative nostalgia. "From the standpoint of restorative nostalgia, the past is valuable for the present; it does not represent duration and extension, but something like a total image. Moreover, the past should not show any signs of decay; it should be re-drawn in its "original form" and remain forever young" [Boym 2013]. For Russian comics, the 2000s are both irrevocably gone and preserved as an idealized image, getting even more valuable compaered with the preceding 1990s and the following turbulent 2010s that followed.
