Appointed in January, Olga Lyubimova is the third Russian government minister to announce a Covid-19 diagnosis in the past week

Art historian Andrey Sarabyanov is planning a new exhibition of forgotten pieces by Kandinsky, Rodchenko and Stepanova

Hermitage officials dismayed after city council refuses planning permission for new venue, citing multiple concerns

Russia has banned Chinese citizens from entering the country, slashing attendance at cultural institutions in Moscow and St Petersburg

Sixteen-year-old Nastya Kovtun is the youngest person ever to design a Vogue digital cover

But Vladimir Medinsky, who has been replaced by Olga Lyubimova, will 'not be left without work' in culture, the Russian President says

Directors of the State Hermitage Museum and State Tretyakov Gallery are part of a team enlisted to create laws that will allow the president to remain in power

More than 180 works will feature in the Moscow exhibition including a section focusing on Dalí's Russian-born wife Gala

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

The Hermitage has opened a branch in Siberia, the Pushkin is renovating a Constructivist landmark in Samara and more agreements are in the works

Electronic visas pave the way for ever greater visitors numbers, creating major logistical problems at Tsarskoe Selo and the Hermitage

Museum hosted a 'Feminnale' that included performance work highlighting plight of sex workers

An avid patron of the arts and sciences, the emperor gave Russian society a new perspective on the world and elevated the country’s place within it

Collaboration spearheaded by the State Hermitage Museum was made official in Damascus this week

Exhibition showing "unique slice" of art from Europe will coincide with the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War

State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka

Head of Repin Institute, which is popular with Chinese students, says it has "a lot in common" with Chinese art academies

Investigators find paintings and rare books missing from private museum belonging to banker Alexei Ananyev accused of alleged financial crimes

The German curator was previously accused of conflicting interests between the Amsterdam museum and her private consulting work

Multi-institution programme aims to introduce contemporary art to the capital's residents

Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled

Cultural programme of Russian art launches to coincide with president's trip to the Gulf state to sign over $2bn worth of deals

Deputy director’s swingeing salary cuts trigger resignations of around 50 employees at Moscow theatre museum

Denis Chuprikov took the landscape from State Tretyakov Gallery with the aim of "causing hype", he says

Handover from Russian culture ministry is expected to be completed in early 2020

Cosmoscow's public programme will explore 'the crisis of faith in expertise' in the art market

Street art and digital art used as tools of subversion, as artists themselves bear the brunt of a brutal government crackdown

Former Roerich Museum director Tigran Mkrtychev wins international competition to head up the famed Russian avant-garde collection long embroiled in controversy

Artem Loskutov’s application was rejected on the same day that journalist and supporter Ivan Golunov was arrested

André-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud urges Russia to reunite collection in Moscow