Author Maria Galina declined to accept the 2025 Dar Literary Prize, sparking debate over engagement with Russian-language literature in wartime. 

Karolina Pavlova struggled to find literary acclaim as a woman in the 19th century, but her work endures.

Russia and Belarus celebrate a record year for trade between them in 2024. No surprise there.

Russian soldiers seek prison to avoid combat, say lawyers and rights defenders.

Russia has passed a law prohibiting inscriptions in foreign languages in signs and billboards.

Russians are spending an increasing amount of time on domestic social media.

State-backed NGOs replace independent environmental voices in the Arctic.

The Duma has approved the creation of a national messenger app to digitize the government and collect data on its citizens' chats.

Vladimir Mayakovsky sports a complicated legacy a nearly a century after Joseph Stalin immortalized him as the defining poet of the Soviet epoch.

Russian leadership has approved a new plan for cultural policy through 2027.

Russian teens face terrorism charges after allegedly being paid to commit acts of sabotage.

American rapper Tyga performed in Moscow after Russia's three-year Hollywood drought.