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.

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 ...

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.