The regime feels threatened by the work of a 77-year-old St. Petersburg artist.

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

One year on, the Russian language is changing, imbued with Newspeak and Aesopian diversions.

A new exhibit in New Jersey plumbs the ability of humor and art to fracture a totaliitarian society.

The Ukrainian city of Poltava will remove statues of Pushkin and two Soviet generals following residents' protests.

Moscow police attempted to interrupt an anti-war pianist's concert, going so far as to call in a bomb threat.

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

An art group in St. Petersburg put up a sculpture criticizing Russian society's blind-sightedness on the war.

A Crimean artist who painted a political message was beaten and forced to publicly apologize to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Activist Rita Flores' whereabouts are unknown after Moscow police detained her.

How a meme, a handful of buttons, and family support turned into something beautiful.

How a woman from Moscow turned a cake business into an anti-war protest and helped charities.