Recent arrests and prosecutions pile on the pressure as authorities cement a cultural agenda centred on promoting ...

For well over a decade, school textbooks and lessons have portrayed Stalin in an increasingly positive way,’ a professor ...

It belongs to the Museum of Russian Art. Museum staff members painted the flag on Feb. 28, 2022, just days after the onset of Russia’s war in Ukraine. “The first time I saw it, I pulled over ...

Total Russian-art sales, just $25 million at auctions in 2002, will likely be 10 times that this year. "The growth is absolutely astronomical," says Joanna Vickery, head of the Russian-art ...

Soaring high above Leon Hushcha’s other artworks at The Museum of Russian Art is a thin purplish blue bird with giant yellow-orange wings. The wings are splattered with red, like blood ...

The life-size statue of Joseph Stalin was unveiled at a metro station in Moscow, Russia, and has been met with mixed ...

As missiles rain down on Ukraine and Donald Trump scratches his head over it all, a new public artwork shows the Russian ...

By Graham Bowley Finland’s foreign ministry said Friday that it had authorized the return of three shipments of Russian art that had been on loan to museums and galleries but were impounded by ...

A Russian oligarch said to be worth more than $6 billion is taking Sotheby’s to court after claiming the famed auction house helped his art dealer dupe him into buying more than a dozen rare ...

Russian collectors of art have been shut out of global markets since Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 resulted in unprecedented sanctions imposed by Western countries.

“We are hostages, all of us, of one man and his sick ambitions,” Reva said, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Moloch sculpture, currently in Berlin, is the centerpiece of a ...

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