The Latest Breaking News from Alexander Pushkin

Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

Italy’s premier opera house is opening its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov” and Ukrainian protests the selection is a propaganda win for the Kremlin

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

The Queen, who is currently on her summer break in Balmoral, is mourning the death of her close childhood friend Lady Myra Butter, who passed away last week at the age of 97

The Captured House, part of a Ukrainian diplomacy drive, tours works created since 24 February

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

Ukraine has ramped up its de-Russification efforts, but figures like Tolstoy and Pushkin were also targeted by Russia.

“Russia is not Putin.” As a lecturer in Russian history, and an ex-Soviet Russian American, I have said these words many times. But now the treasures of Russia’s culture — its poetry, novels, movies, theater, symphonies — must be weighed against the current regime’s premeditated murder of the innocent. In…