European Union says move amounts to one of the strongest sanctions packages against Russia to date linked to the war.

More than three years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the arts remain a carefully scrutinized ...

When the name of Valery Gergiev popped up on a bill for Italy’s Un’Estate da Re festival, it was not simply another summer concert promotion it was an incendiary spark thrown onto the dry wood of ...

A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests ...

Yulia Navalnaya* called on the Italian authorities to cancel the performance of the Russian conductor, People's Artist of the ...

A concert in Italy by a top Russian conductor shunned in the West since the invasion of Ukraine could send the wrong message, ...

Two different petitions. One signed by 16,000 people, another supported by some Nobel laureates. The appeals have a single ...

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In just a few hours, the petition launched by the Free Russians Association in Italy has surpassed 16,000 signatures on ...

ROME (Reuters) -The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Italy to cancel a concert by a Russian ...

An Italian region has invited the pro-Putin conductor, signalling a rehabilitation despite no sign of an end to the war.

Valery Gergiev will perform at a festival in Italy, his first European concert since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.