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 ...

The conflict over Russia's role in Ukraine is spilling over into many aspects of Russian life, including its music scene. Some of the country's most popular musicians have taken stands against 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 ...

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 ...