Culture & Customs

Russian event promoters have begun requiring artists to promise that they won't include political statements in their performances.

Anastasia Savitskaya, a corporal in the Russian Armed Forces, is Russia's first known female military casualty since the launch of the Ukrainian invasion. 

Russian prisoners with military experience are being recruited to join the fight in Ukraine.

Over one hundred cases of sexual assault by Russian troops have been reported during the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's streamlined passport process, offered to residents of Kherson and Zaporizhia, has been expanded to include all Ukrainian citizens. 

As a famous Russian writer recounts, many Russians are pretending that nothing is happening. They’re trying not to discuss what’s going on just a four-hour train ride to Hell away.

A tank driver and a navy man are united in their feelings about war, but perhaps not as you think.

Art is a powerful realm for protest. The Ukraine War has inspired a new wave of brave works.

Tender and natural bonds can develop between strangers brought together by misfortune.

“Prone to betrayal, lies and deceit. He refused to participate in a special military operation on the territory of the LPR, DPR and Ukraine.”

– A stamp on a Russian soldier's military ID after he refused to fight in Ukraine

35 countries are calling for stricter international sports sanctions on Belarus and Russia.

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