On September 18, official Russian media reported about a shooting in the heart of the Russian capital, near the head office of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace. It was a violent attempt to seize assets in the style of the 1990s — a brief period of relative democracy in Russia, marked at the same time by wars between armed gangster groups vying for spheres of influence. Russian media abroad immediately rushed to declare the “return of the wild 1990s” as one of the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war.