Institution will house Petr Aven’s collection of Russian and Latvian fine and decorative art

Yulia Tsvetkova, a LGBTQ activist-artist, is facing pornography charges for posting body-positive drawings

Ivan Volkov's work in Marsovo Pole is thought to be a comment on poor street maintenance in the Russian city

Marat Guelman was designated a "foreign agent" by the Russian government last month, a label that comes with hefty restrictions

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the capital sustained some damage, according to a government statement

A sharp fuel price hike triggered widespread demonstrations in the former Soviet republic with artists calling for a stop to the violence

International Memorial documented the crimes committed under Stalin's Great Terror and its sister organisation Memorial Human Rights Centre chronicled today's abuses

Masha Alekhina and Lucy Shteyn, who have previously served prison terms, were sentenced to 15 days following charges of "propaganda of Nazi symbolism"

Court has ordered the arrest of Viktor Yelizarov after more than ten former pupils came forward with allegations against him

The lucrative award is divided between 16 recipients and funded by the Moscow city government

Power plant arts centre backed by Russian billionaire makes its long-awaited debut with a “dream exhibition” for Ragnar Kjartansson and a carnival in four acts

Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government

Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works

Russian influencer posts aftermath of assault to her 1.5 million followers as state authorities target social media users posting in museums

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

A growing number of culture workers are being given long prison sentences on spurious charges

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

Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov

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

The Azerbaijani-born artist was one of the Soviet Union's most notable creatives during Khrushchev's cultural thaw

Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign

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

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

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

Alexei Kuzmich, who is known for performances critiquing the regime of Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, warned France is also “slipping into fascism” and accused president Emmanuel Macron of punishing dissenters