In a televised speech Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West is trying to cancel Russian culture in the same way that he says others tried to cancel "Harry Potter" author J ...

More than three years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the arts remain a carefully scrutinized ...

The sharp controversies, ongoing for several days, regarding the participation of Russian maestro Valerij Gergiev, a friend ...

Putin's Culture War. By Jeanne Park. August 20, 2012. ... And that has made it a more kind of controversial force. Just as some people see it as an anchor of Russian identity, ...

A cultural event in Caserta risks becoming an international incident. The complaint published in the pages of Repubblica ...

How is it possible that in the summer of 2025, three years after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Valery Gergiev, Putin’s accomplice and a person included on the sanctions lists of several ...

A planned classical music concert in Italy, featuring a Russian conductor known to be an old friend and vocal supporter of ...

An Italian region has invited the pro-Putin conductor, signalling a rehabilitation despite no sign of an end to the war.

The trial of a punk band in Russia reflects the Putin regime’s hard-line opinions on political dissent, and those views are shaping its foreign policy, says CFR’s Stephen Sestanovich.

Putin lifts conservative media talking points to bemoan ‘cancel culture’ J.K. Rowling warned him to keep her out of it March 25, 2022 More than 3 years ago ...