Russia
Iran's Saba Cultural Institute announces Russian Orthodox icons show
The news comes as unexpected due to suppression of religion freedom in the nation
Chinese buyers thin on the ground at first Shanghai art fair: ShContemporary in review
Nevertheless, dealers predict this will change as excitement surrounds international event
Hermitage nears conclusion of deal with Iran securing multiple joint exhibitions
The museum's director maintains that the agreement is no major coup
Russian art dealers released after a year in jail without trial
Couple claim that forgery accusations were the result of a property deal gone sour
Russian Oligarch Alexander Shadrin buys 40 Dalís
The works are on show in a local museum, and will travel the country next year
Orthodox Church seeks control of Moscow icon museum
The fate of Ryazan's Art and History Museum could set a precedent for restitution
Moscow dealers to open art centre in former wine factory
Businessmen and collectors fund $4m complex
A pilot restoration project modelled on the National Trust is being launched later this year in Russia
Putin looks to UK to save listed buildings
Billionaire to open first private museums in Russia
Viktor Vekselberg will establish galleries in St Petersburg and Moscow to display his own art as well as works belonging to other private collectors
Russian billionaires are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on art. None of them has spoken to the press about what drives their collecting—until now
Russian collector Pyotr Aven shows his hand
Russia’s largest private gallery opens
Collector and dealer Alexander Yakut's new enterprise is his most ambitious yet
Siberian billionaire funds $3m Hermitage exhibition tour
Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative
Russian Court sanctions Church censorship
Director and curator charged with “incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity”
Russia pledges 120 million rubles to restore warping wooden church
Built without a single nail, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour will have to be taken apart in order to save it
Putin’s unexpected support for archaeologists may be warning to construction industry
He ordered the governor of Novgorod to make builders wait until archaeologists had finished excavating
Incoming Russian minister dismisses German restitution claims
Alexander Sokolov does not seem interested in returning looted art
Russian Minister on looted Baldin collection: “This collection should be returned and we will return it”
A legal loophole may enable the restitution to Germany of a collection taken to the USSR by a Soviet army officer in 1945
Recent developments in restitution claims in Russia prove that some art theft is 'legitimate'; when it is committed by a government that is recognised by nations around the world
Unlike the heirs of Nazi victims, the descendants of collectors whose art was appropriated by the Bolsheviks are unlikely to have it returned
Claim for slice of the action at LACMA as new show uses paintings subject to restitution claims
A French plaintiff says he deserves a percentage of exhibition ticket sales at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art because the works on display were taken from his grandfather after the Russian Revolution
Malevich “Black square” goes to the Hermitage
The journey of the painting has ended
Costs of Afghan war may curtail promised State funding to struggling Hermitage Museum
Published accounts show that in 2000 the Hermitage raised 65% of its budget
Son of El Lissitzky files for return of another war loot Kandinsky
The dispute revolves around the work 'Improvisation No.10'
Further cultural valuables to be returned to Germany
A medieval stained-glass window to return to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, while Germany will pay for the rebuilding of a 14th-century church in the Pskov region
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
Malevich heirs gunning for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk
Museum bought works after artist abandoned them in Berlin
Russia rules on restitution: “Art taken from occupied Germany belongs to Russia”
Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill
Russian cultural institutions suffer collateral damage from the war in the Balkans
The director of the Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, outlines the possible implications for his museum of the NATO campaign
Environmental protection in Russia, aqua alta on the Neva
Unlike Venice, St Petersburg is building a flood barrier, but needs more money