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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (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 designate ...

A Vietnamese pop star won the Intervision Song Contest in Moscow on Saturday. The United States was meant to participate, but politics intervened. By Alex Marshall Ivan Nechepurenko and Alina Lobzina ...

When Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc held aloft the crystal cup trophy in Moscow’s Live Arena on Saturday night, he became the inaugural winner of new song contest Intervision — a Russian answer to ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. On a recent summer night, hundreds of young Russians assembled on St. Petersburg’s main street to hear songs that the government had banned. It was the latest ...

Two young street musicians who were jailed for more than a month in Russia for singing anti-Kremlin songs have left the ...

A Russian mega-pop star’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has set off intense reactions on social media, posing a critical question: Will the iconic singer’s disapproving ...

Saint Petersburg – A Russian court on Tuesday sent an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to jail for a third time as the Kremlin mounts a no-limits crackdown on any signs of ...

A Russian court on Tuesday sent an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to jail for a third time. All public criticism of Moscow's military ...

Authorities have intensified their crackdown on any opposition to the Kremlin since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...