Sophia Kishkovsky

Art is a weapon as Russia and US fight cultural war

Relations worse than ever after federal US judge imposes $43.7m fine over Jewish Orthodox library

Artists should be ‘feared by the powerful’, says former Greek finance minister

In his keynote speech at the Moscow Biennale, Yanis Varoufakis discussed the perils of cultural collapse and why the euro is doomed—from an artistic standpoint

Moscow Biennale brings hope to grim symbol of Russia’s past

Contemporary art exhibition sends homegrown and foreign artists to country's industrial centres

Putin intervenes in Crimean row

Priest resigns after outrage over appointment to run World Heritage Site

Founder of Jewish museum injured in Moscow shooting

Jewish organisation concerned attack on collector and businessman Sergei Ustinov may be anti-Semitic

Curators of Kiev biennial send Europe back to the class room

Eight-week event is structured around "schools" addressing key social and artistic issues

Russian museums reel as they are engaged by the orthodox church in a sacred battle

The increasing closeness of church and state is causing concern about the future of museums and artists’ freedom of expression

Separatists in eastern Ukraine blow up art installation

Pascale Marthine Tayou’s 40m-tall piece was dedicated to the women of Donetsk

Russian architect fights for German Modernist housing estate

Dmitry Sukhin wants Colour Row Settlement, designed by Berlin Philharmonic Hall architect Hans Scharoun, to be restored to full glory

Moscow’s Garage Museum opens with one eye on Soviet past, the other on the future

Inaugural exhibitions highlight its archive of non-conformist art, while new commissions keep the institution focused on the present

Dasha Zhukova’s Garage to reopen in new-look Gorky Park pavilion

Rem Koolhaas transforms Soviet-era pavilion and Yayoi Kusama brings Infinity Room and polka dots to Moscow<br>

Has Russian government’s half-billion dollar pledge to save historic city of Vyborg come too late?

Experts blame local authorities in Vyborg for failing to act as architecture begins to collapse

Lawnews

Russian artist named a 'prisoner of conscience' by Amnesty International has been released

Artyom Loskutov was jailed by Siberian police after organising a May Day counter-march

Kiev Biennial finds a new venue and international support

Second edition to open at the Visual Culture Research Center in September with related projects across Europe, curators say

Russia’s Versailles under threat by developers

Preservationists fear that plans for the Arkhangelskoye estate’s visitor facilities will ignore restoration needs

Russian dealer to help Abramovic get Montenegro art centre off the ground

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>

Disputes in Russia concerning the authenticity of many works attributed to Malevich circulating the Russian art market

As a major Malevich show opens in London, claims grow that the avant-garde market is still plagued by the fakes

Moscowarchive

Tate Modern is our model, says director of Pushkin museum

Maria Loshak seeks industrial space for Modern and contemporary art satellite in Moscow

Moscow collector Mkrtich Okroyan opens Art Deco museum

Objects include a mixed media panel suite by Pierre Bobot from the Roseland Ballroom in New York

New monument to mark Malevich’s grave

A competition to be held for a monument to mark lost resting place of the Russian avant-garde

Russiaarchive

The Ratnaya Palata gets a fresh start with new WWI museum

Russia sets sights on high-tech war museum without a Marxist-Leninist bias

National Institute of Independent Expertise founded to root out fakes in Russian art market

The organisation, the brainchild of coin collector Vladimir Kazakov and The East European Auction house, aims to ensure that the provenance of a piece has been checked via an unbiased system

Museumsarchive

Hermitage and Pushkin involve Putin in new museum row

The two institutions have clashed over the future of modern masterpieces

Moscowarchive

Sweet factory could be Moscow’s Tate Modern

It will be part of a larger development that will include office space, retail outlets and swanky lofts

Collector Shalva Breus turns Constructivist cinema into Moscow art space

Soviet-era unofficial artists and videos are on the centre’s agenda

New projects: The Rothko art centre

The artist was born in Daugavpils, once part of Russia