More than three years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the arts remain a carefully scrutinized ...

A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests ...

Yulia Navalnaya* called on the Italian authorities to cancel the performance of the Russian conductor, People's Artist of the ...

When the name of Valery Gergiev popped up on a bill for Italy’s Un’Estate da Re festival, it was not simply another summer concert promotion it was an incendiary spark thrown onto the dry wood of ...

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Two different petitions. One signed by 16,000 people, another supported by some Nobel laureates. The appeals have a single ...

ROME (Reuters) -The wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Italy to cancel a concert by a Russian ...

In just a few hours, the petition launched by the Free Russians Association in Italy has surpassed 16,000 signatures on ...

How is it possible that in the summer of 2025, three years after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Valery Gergiev, Putin’s accomplice and a person included on the sanctions lists of several ...

ROME - A concert in Italy by a top Russian conductor shunned in the West since the invasion of Ukraine could send the wrong ...

Valery Gergiev, the star Russian conductor fired in Germany last year for his refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine, was given a warm welcome in China this week as he started a three-day ...