Hundreds of thousands of Russians were glued to their television sets last Saturday for an event that they treat with almost as much gravity as an international sporting match or a presidential ...

The day singer-songwriter Manizha Sangin was supposed to headline a June music festival in St. Petersburg, Russia, she went instead to a shelter housing Ukrainian refugees. A week earlier, the ...

Alla Pugacheva, whose stardom has spanned from the Soviet era to after the Cold War, said the invasion of Ukraine had turned Russia into a “pariah.” By Anton Troianovski Russia’s defining 20th-century ...

Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like other antiwar acts in exile, she’s having to retool her career. Monetochka was one of Russia’s most discussed pop stars. Now, like ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Alla Pugacheva during a 2014 awards ceremony honoring the pop singer with the Order For Merit to the Fatherland. Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images As someone who has ...

Rights lawyers say 18-year-old street musician Diana Loginova is caught in a jail "carousel," with prosecutors filing a ...

MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a "foreign agent", a move that would officially ...

The Russian DJ Nina Kraviz is no longer playing at three music festivals this summer following criticism over her political history and recent rhetoric about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kraviz, one ...

The founder of a pop group whose song became an anthem during anti-war protests in Russia has died by drowning aged 34 on Sunday. Dima Nova—whose given name was Dmitry Svirgunov—founded the popular ...

EADaily, . A member of the Modern Talking duo popular in the 1990s, the famous German music producer and entrepreneur Dieter ...

Music is a powerful tool of resistance, and has been used this way for centuries. In the late years of USSR music played a big role in supporting dissent and new ideas. More recently, in Russia, which ...

Viola in Vilnius notes the popularity of Russian pop music in Lithuania. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and ...