The icon had been kept by Russia’s State Tretyakov Gallery for decades but, in 2022, was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Touted as the next heir to the cultural capitals of Russia alongside Moscow and St Petersburg is Perm, where a cultural revival highlighting edgy contemporary art is taking place. The new avant garde ...

Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky has sparked new speculation about Vladimir Putin's health after he claimed the Russian despot "will die soon". Volodymyr Zelensky predicted that Putin "will ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the US will "stand strong" in the face of Russian demands to lift sanctions as a condition for a ceasefire in the Black Sea. Moscow said a ...

When addressing Congress for the first time as US president on March 4, Donald Trump said, “Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine.” ...

A Russian military court has handed down long prison sentences to several members of Ukraine’s Azov Regiment, which led the defense of the key city of Mariupol during the early months of the war.

Entertaining as it is to watch Statham blast his way through the entire Russian mob, I would happily sit through a whole movie where Levon just grits his way through a regular shift on the ...