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The multi-party system, which came to Russia in the early 1990s, was accompanied by the appearance of publishing production of newly created parties, social movements and associations. Not only the parliamentary parties but so-called marginal ones and political organizations produced their books, magazines, bulletins, newspapers, leaflets and posters in large numbers. The article attempts to assess the scope of publishing activity of each political structures in the late XX - early XXI centuries in the territory of Siberia and the Far East (“United Russia”, the Communist party, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), marginal parties of the 1990s), as well as social movements of centrist, left and national-patriotic orientations. The author represents the repertoire of newspapers, books and brochures, analyzes their content in the context of evolution of social life of the country. The study shows that the parties forming the basis of democratic movement in Russia in the early 1990s had lost the initiative in the political press by 1996. Newspapers of Union of Right Forces, party “Yabloko”, and others were published in East Russia only during the election campaigns, although having huge circulations. On the contrary, the main opponents of the current government - the Communists - created a stable network of their newspapers in the regions covering all regions of Siberia and the Far East with party publications in the early XXI century. The publishing practice of LDPR was extremely unstable: it had developed significantly in a number of areas by the end of the XX century, but declined then. Nowadays the main printed products of the Liberal Democrats are produced in million copies by the central headquarters in Moscow, and sent to regions. The specificity of the 1990s - early XXI century is editing in the regions of a large number of newspapers, magazines, brochures, which propagandize reactionary, nationalistic, chauvinistic ideology, including anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. The article analyzes this phenomenon. The author concludes that extremist and conservative trends in the publishing products of a number of social forces were associated with the crisis in the first decade of post-Soviet history. In general, the emergence and development of a multi-party press and book publishing are an element of forming the civil society in Russia.