Hundreds of thousands of Russians were glued to their television sets last Saturday for an event that they treat with almost as much gravity as an international sporting match or a presidential ...

Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like other antiwar acts in exile, she’s having to retool her career. Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like ...

The day singer-songwriter Manizha Sangin was supposed to headline a June music festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, she went instead to a shelter housing Ukrainian refugees. A week earlier, the ...

MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a "foreign agent", a move that would officially ...

Alla Pugacheva, whose stardom has spanned from the Soviet era to after the Cold War, said the invasion of Ukraine had turned Russia into a “pariah.” By Anton Troianovski Russia’s defining 20th-century ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

Seeing that Russia is in a permanent state of cultural upheaval, it’s somewhat difficult to get a grip on exactly what “Russian music” is at any one point in time. Yet, much like every other country ...

The founder of a pop group whose song became an anthem during anti-war protests in Russia has died by drowning aged 34 on Sunday. Dima Nova—whose given name was Dmitry Svirgunov—founded the popular ...

Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent,” a move that would officially designate Russia’s most ...

Pugacheva may be declared enemy of the Kremlin Russian singer has criticised Putin government 74-year-old known to generations of Russians MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have asked ...