But culture experts remain cautious as extent of damage at the ancient site is assessed

Video shows attackers beating a gallery guard and tearing posters, and walls spray-painted with graffiti stating Mouthpiece of Moscow and Glory to Ukraine

Director plays down concerns over surprise investigation, but some see it as a warning against opposition

Russian MP lauds Orthodox Church control of St Petersburg cathedral with anti-Semitic speech

As another monument in Palmyra is destroyed by extremists, the detailed record of the ancient city becomes ever more precious

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally thanked Bernard Arnault at the Kremlin for hosting the show

Hermitage director, who has known president-elect Trump "a long time", hopes exhibitions can go ahead with US anti-seizure guarantee

Ancient artefacts were on loan from Crimea to a museum in the Netherlands when penninsula was annexed in 2014

Supporters say legislation will encourage cultural exchange, but opponents fear it will block restitution of works seized in countries like Russia

St Petersburg museum says the Belgian artist's installations condemn animal cruelty

The blaze at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God at Vardzia may have been started by a monk’s candle

Exhibition at State Tretyakov Gallery, opening tomorrow, includes Caravaggio’s The Deposition

Interactive work in inaugural display condemned as an insult to the Virgin Mary

Speakers at the World Cities Culture Forum Summit addressed culture development as a driver for social progress, while Russian liberals warn of a slip back into Stalinism

Statue of Russia’s tenth-century founder seen by many to honour Putin as well as the prince

Two back-to-back incidents at Sakharov Center centred on pictures of Ukrainian soldiers

The picture, which was stolen in 1995, turned up in a gallery in Venice

Jock Sturges defends work against pornography claims by conservative protesters

Alexandra Paperno among artists creating installations in tiny village in southern Russia

Collection supported by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation includes Soviet noncomformist works and pays tribute to artists with a French connection

Ukraine calls for boycott of museum for borrowing 38 works by Ivan Aivazovsky from annexed territories

Although the Soviet leader once called his work “degenerate”, the artist was asked to design his tombstone

Discovery in Phanagoria, the ancient Greek site near Crimea, is of "international significance"

Andrey Filatov’s Art Russe signs long-term deal with Lord Montagu’s Beaulieu Palace House

But he told reporters after the trial that he refused to pay and mocked the prosecutors’ charges of damaging cultural heritage by burning FSB doors

Recently restored painting, The Resurrection of Christ, is going on show at the State Hermitage Museum

Police question former director of National Centre for Contemporary Arts in connection to corruption investigation