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

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

An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

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

The renovation threatened the museum's architecture and collection, plaintiffs argued

The Hermitage will also expand its presence in Crimea with a new cultural centre planned in Sevastopol

Initiative aims to boost Russian expertise in rapidly developing field of preserving contemporary art

It is the second time in a month that the feminist activist has been arrested by police

Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries

Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries

The latest bizarre incident at one of Russia’s most important institutions was an “unsanctioned performance” according to the museum

Actors, musicians, dancers and a famous Moscow film director, combined with lighting wizardry, celebrate the Russian art world

Officials raised concerns that the festival was promoting an LGBT agenda

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

Diplomats hint at future cooperation between the countries at Texas conference

Book collects pictorially subversive propaganda in a populist medium

GES-2 will be part of Moscow's Museum Mile, linked to Garage, the Tretyakov and the Pushkin

Brazen incident raises questions about museum security in Russia

Public conversation to be held in February will address long impasse on museum loans

Activists say PIK Group's high-rise developments are environmentally unsafe and only aimed at making "super profits"

The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design

Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection

Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections

European Court of Human Rights ordered payment over treatment of the group in pre-trial detention and treatment in court

Students’ parents complain and psychologists sent to school after art contest for International Day of Tolerance draws fire from authorities

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