Cultural workers voice frustration at mixed closure orders, as theatres, concert halls and restaurants are allowed to stay open

A grant of over $100,000 has been given from the US to St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum for the maintenance of three 16th-century school of Raphael works

The activist performance artists called their actions “a gift as a symbol of the love and freedom that are lacking” for LGBTQ communities in Russia

Despite pandemic, Russian and Iranian museum directors met online to discuss future cultural collaborations

“Form of soft protest” is likened to the optimism of the early 2000s

Foundation running the huge project has cut more than 80% of staff, but construction continues

Aleksandr Lukashenko regime continues to crackdown on Belarus’s contemporary arts community

Event still plans to run this week and hopes for a less distracted local Russian collector base, starved of international art travels

Former chairman of Belgazprombank, which owns works by Chagall and Soutine, was arrested in June on charges of laundering $430m but many suspect it was politically motivated

Contemporary artists in the country are reacting to the crisis after allegations of election fraud and police brutality

Petition to museum management raises alarm over frames in "critical condition" from improper storage

Unveiled in a business centre in Moscow, the statue by contemporary artist Alexey Garikovich was commissioned by top Russian e-commerce and foodtech companies

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His Art Russe Foundation has made offers to preserve monuments of Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander Baranov that have been the target of protesters in the US

Russia's arts community rallying behind Yulia Tsvetkova whose trial starts in July

Accused of embezzling funds while staging a contemporary arts festival, Serebrennikov faced six years in prison but was handed a suspended sentence

Artist Pyotr Verzilov was sentenced to 15 days in prison for "petty hooliganism" in latest clampdown on the arts in Russia

Many Unesco World Heritage sites that are also working monasteries have been accused of reacting slowly to the pandemic

Loss of tourism and oil market crash because of coronavirus pandemic wreak havoc as institutions seek state help

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