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
Fake art: “Criminality in the Russian art market has reached alarming levels”
Tretyakov curator speaks out and admits being taken in by forgers
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
Swedish museum faces Russian restitution claim
The Konstmuseum in Malmö allegedly kept works lent to the gallery before the outbreak of the First World War
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
Malevich painting finally authenticated
Traces of Malevich's signature found on 1913 painting
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
Moscow property development threatens site of Malevich grave
Local authorities have not been sympathetic towards Malevich's estate where he was buried
A failing Russian bank exposes a climate of fear and suspicion over ownership of Malevich’s “Black Square”
The painting is currently with Russia's Culture Ministry, though Malevich's heirs dispute the bank's original ownership
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
Warhol tour begins in Russia
Russia’s first Andy Warhol exhibition has opened at the State Hermitage Museum
Art and archaeology falls casualty to the Chechen war
The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire
Malevich heirs gunning for Amsterdam’s Stedelijk
Museum bought works after artist abandoned them in Berlin
The Museum of Religion in St Petersburg has admitted to having looted items in its possession and is involved in tangled negotiations with the Church
Former atheist goes to confession
State Hermitage Museum's show of Iranian jewellery from Patti Birch's collection recalls an age where the export of archaeological finds was legal
The Shah's policy decreed that private individuals could sponsor excavations and keep a portion of the finds
Russia rules on restitution: “Art taken from occupied Germany belongs to Russia”
Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill
A room full of MoMA in St Petersburg's Hermitage Museum
This marks the first in a series of planned loans of modern and contemporary American works from MoMA to the Hermitage
Environmental protection in Russia, aqua alta on the Neva
Unlike Venice, St Petersburg is building a flood barrier, but needs more money
Dutch government cuts Mondrian Foundation's sponsorship budget
Holland will not be participating in the Biennales of Sidney and São Paolo as a result