Actors, musicians, dancers and a famous Moscow film director, combined with lighting wizardry, celebrate the Russian art world

Officials raised concerns that the festival was promoting an LGBT agenda

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

Diplomats hint at future cooperation between the countries at Texas conference

Book collects pictorially subversive propaganda in a populist medium

GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin

Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia

Public conversation to be held in February will address long impasse on museum loans

Activists say PIK Group's high-rise developments are environmentally unsafe and only aimed at making "super profits"

The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design

Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection

Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections

European Court of Human Rights ordered payment over treatment of the group in pre-trial detention and treatment in court

Students’ parents complain and psychologists sent to school after art contest for International Day of Tolerance draws fire from authorities

Defacement may be politically motivated as nationalists see the veneration of the German figure as unpatriotic

Russian pilgrims can no longer participate in services or sacraments there

A group of women send partition crashing to the ground, as one punter only just escapes being crushed

A small number of works by the Russian avant-garde artist are currently at “Davos in the Desert” conference to act as teaser for future exhibition

Announcement comes as evidence mounts in slaying of the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi

Church is latest example of symbiosis between church and military patriotism

Volunteer-run organisation has been based in former Soviet secret police headquarters for the past decade

Medics in Berlin have not identified substance but are confident Russian will recover

Femen activists showed their support outside the courthouse by sewing their lips shut in a recreation of his first performance

Activist who was recently imprisoned for Russian group's World Cup protest in July "lost his vision, speech and ability to walk"

The seller says that the painting, titled A Young Girl in Furs, was authenticated by the Stockholm art valuation firm Atelje Catellani

Moscow contemporary art fair features a Qatari contemporary art exhibition in Russia as the two countries try to foster cultural ties

State Hermitage Museum and Tretyakov are involved in arts centre in contested region

The street artist’s Instagram comment that the show has “nothing to do with me” set off an online debate about artists’ rights—which made him LOL

Maria Alyokhina had spent two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”

The actor, who will be working on improving Russian-American relations including culture, was granted a Russian passport by Putin in 2016