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

The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum

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

Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands

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"

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

Ancient city occupied by Islamic State was retaken by Syrian army with Russian support in 2017

But Russian president's remarks at eighth Moscow Urban Forum angered preservationists

Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova will continue to fund their contemporary art museum

Ilya Repin’s masterpiece in Moscow’s Tretyakov gallery was struck with a metal pole in May

Boris Mints’s institution says that exhibitions are continuing to run

The Grabar Art Conservation Center has launched the Ovchinnikov Ikonoteka space, which is named in honour of renowned restorer

The Hungarian firm Gedeon Richter to fund three-year project to restore works from the Russian museum that relate to the concept of female beauty

Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II in Tobolsk is Russia's first devoted to 'royal martyrs'

Football fans get free entry at Tretyakov, but no special treatment at Hermitage

The two may seem unlikely bedfellows, but plenty of artists are football fans—and they are making their allegiances known during this summer’s World Cup

Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli hosts exhibition of Russian nonconformist artists in first foreign venture by Moscow’s AZ Museum

Man who confessed to being drunk on vodka tore painting in three places on Friday evening

It is business as usual, says the organisation’s director, as its founder, Ziyavudin Magomedov, remains in custody awaiting trial on racketeering charges

The Russian republic of Ingushetia is hoping that improved conservation will lead to Unesco status