While Zhenya Berkovich's trial keeps getting postponed, her two adopted daughters wait for her at home. 

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

A theater canceled a show after the playwright was convicted for "spreading fake news about the Russian army."

A director and a playwright were arrested for "promoting terrorism," for a play that criticizes how the Islamic State recruited Russian women.
 

A young playwright in Tolyatti is threatened with 20 years in jail for rehearsing a play with his students.

The Ministry of Culture began inspecting Moscow theaters after a famous actor made an obliquely anti-war statement in an interview.

Moscow is replacing the anti-war directors of the Gogol Center.

The International Platonov Arts Festival in Voronezh, has been canceled due to current political conditions.

Ksenia Sorokina gives her Golden Mask award to jailed anti-war activist Sasha Skochilenko.

A powerful, deep interview with one of Russia's leading artists and humanitarians, about her decision to leave Russia.

Performance art, adventure, and psychedelia in a Russian village. What more could you want?

In this week's Odder News, Etsy is a threat, a reindeer tries to race a Russian train, and "The Nutcracker" is much harder to see in Russia than in the U.S.