Russian President Vladimir Putin has made Ukraine’s book publishing industry a target of the war. But the industry and Ukrainian readers are keeping books alive as a source of Ukraine’s resilient ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned that Ukraine's cultural heritage is being destroyed by Russia's war. "Russia's bloody war of aggression is also a war against Ukrainian culture," ...

I first visited the looted museums of Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine, in May 2024. At the time, my team at the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit and I were beginning an ...

MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov does not see Russian actor Yury Borisov’s Oscar nomination as the end of "canceling" Russian culture in the West. "No," the Kremlin official ...

Directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev won the Grand Jury Doc Prize in Sundance last year for their film about defiant artists in Kharkiv finding inspiration during a time of brutal conflict.

Lithuania’s then-Culture Minister Simonas Kairys decided that performing Russian composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s classic ...

Fierce clashes broke out in the street of Bali's hedonistic hotspot of Ubud after police shuttered a notorious resort that caters to Russian expats.