Russian Federation

No sex please, we’re Russian?

Questions over theatrical release for Peter Greenaway’s dizzying, dazzling—and sexually explicit—new film

Published online: 08 May 2013

Hermitage to host Manifesta biennial

Exhibition will test increasingly conservative climate in St Petersburg

Published online: 27 February 2013

Culture minister's controversial appointment sparks protest in north Russia

Karelia's former governor to run state museum at Kizhi World Heritage Site

Published online: 26 February 2013

Putin says Jewish manuscripts should stay in Russia

The Russian president suggests moving the Schneerson collection to the newly built Jewish Museum in Moscow to avoid a political “stalemate” over restitution

Published online: 19 February 2013

Russian conservation bodies denounce destruction of landmark buildings

Moscow mayor under fire for demolishing part of Joseph Bové's early 19th-century complex

Published online: 29 January 2013

Writer’s shrine to get epic treatment

International team of artists and designers to create park dedicated to author of Master and Margarita

Published online: 14 January 2013

Opponents fear billion-rouble scheme to “preserve and redevelop” central St Petersburg

Conservationists and planning experts say $2.8bn pilot projects are a threat to historical character of the heart of the city

Published online: 26 December 2012

Russians invited to buy back or rent their old family estates

Culture minister backs plan to save historic monuments heading to rack and ruin by privatising them

Published online: 22 December 2012

Russia’s Kandinsky Prize split between two artists

Grisha Bruskin and the AES+F collective share the award for best project of the year

Published online: 12 December 2012

Moscow on the Thames

Half a million or so Russians now prefer to live in and around London

Published online: 19 November 2012

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