Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library

Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014

Aishat Kadyrova marked her appointment by announcing an exhibition in the Chechen capital of historic weaponry from the State Hermitage Museum

Restrictions will come into force between 30 October and 7 November after cases reached highest-ever level since start of pandemic

NFT is based on the art collective’s court sentencing documents and recalls their 2012 Punk Prayer performance in Moscow’s Russian Orthodox cathedral

The outspoken museum chief is leading the St Petersburg ticket of United Russia, the pro-Putin ruling party, in national parliamentary elections this weekend

Since the annexation in 2014, Russia has been persecuting the Tatar population and appropriating monuments

Rita Flores is the most recent member of the feminist collective to have been sentenced

The Russian museum had to overcome country's stringent restrictions on cryptocurrencies

Newly reopened 18th-century Church of the Transfiguration, topped with 22 domes, is said to have been built without a single nail

Former mall in Norilsk will provide 8,500 sq. m of space for art

His film Petrov’s Flu has been nominated for the prestigious Palme d’Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival

The 27-year-old activist is demanding that her criminal trial be held in public

In a long-running legal battle, the Shchukin Gallery seeks the return of five paintings worth $63m that the gallery says were taken by a Russian financier

Ruslan Mellin turned to art as a refuge from the brutal reality of lockdown and the effects of the virus

Other creators have been selling works on Clubhouse and dedicated Facebook groups

Despite its size and power, Russia is a blindspot for the international art market but Vickery wants to change that perception

Artists and curators says the amendment to the eduction law, which is intended to stop anti-Russia propaganda, will restrict cultural activity

International Council of Museums committees in Ukraine and Poland appeal for help to secure Olena Pekh's release

Plus, India reconstructs its history and Navid Nuur on Walter de Maria

Group faced prison sentence after filming a “punk prayer” against President Putin in 2012 at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Vladimir Ovcharenko won a state tender for the crumbling studio of the 19th century artist and now he must turn it into an art space within seven years

As demonstrations swept the country last weekend, Tima Radya as well as Masha Alekhina, Victoria Narakhsa, and Lucy Shteyn were held by police

Evicted artists say authorities are leaving them out in the cold by failing to provide alternative workshops

Individuals who receive funding from abroad are subject to strict audits since 30 December

Deal between the Syrian government and Russian masonry body builds on country’s research into state of archaeological site

New artist residency on the Sea of Azov hosts exhibition on the history of pandemics

The art historian began her career at the museum in 1945 under Stalin