Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 7 p.m. on Saturday, my phone lit up with a message from a colleague in Kyiv. It read: "The Lavra is bombed. It's on fire." The ...

An eerie limbo prevails at small art shows, independent theaters and private political clubs, where the war is the elephant ...

A dispute over Russia’s planned return to the Venice Biennale has intensified after the European Union threatened to withdraw funding from the exhibition. The E.U. Commission said allowing a Russian ...

Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end. “You cannot abandon the ship during a storm because you ...

This photo taken on July 10, 2026 shows the city view in Yaroslavl, Russia. Russia's "Golden Ring" is a cultural and tourism ...

At 7 p.m. on Saturday, my phone lit up with a message from a colleague in Kyiv. It read: "The Lavra is bombed. It's on fire." The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, founded in 1051, is the most important religious ...