The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Italy to cancel a concert by a Russian conductor who has ...

A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests ...

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

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

At a televised meeting with leading cultural figures, Putin compared the cancellation of a number of Russian cultural events in recent weeks with the actions of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

“Factory hands, volunteers, athletes, staff of major enterprises and people who are simply not indifferent are recording video addresses to Vladimir Putin,” gushed Russia’s government newspaper.

Vladimir Putin sought to project an image of strength in front of a virtual gathering of Moscow-friendly leaders on Tuesday, in what was the Russian leader’s first appearance on the world stage ...

President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of trying to cancel Russia's rich musical and literary culture, including composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninov, in the same way he ...

A crowd of about 40 people held banners protested violinist Vladimir T. Spivakov, who performed there that evening, for his support of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine.

The 2023 event's organizers earlier announced that the festival, scheduled to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on March 9-12, was being moved to the New Uzbekistan Park in Tashkent.

The Metropolitan Opera said on Sunday that it would no longer engage with performers or other institutions that have voiced support for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, becoming the latest ...

Pro-Putin leaders win two elections in Europe, reminding the Kremlin it has friends in high places Analysis by Luke McGee , CNN 4 minute read ...