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

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

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

For Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, the distinction between art and propaganda is as black and white as day and night. “Art is free and cannot be censored. Propaganda, however, even if done ...

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 ...

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.

Controversy surrounds conductor Valery Gergiev’s upcoming concert in Italy, linked to his ties with Putin and recent ...

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

A cultural event in Caserta risks becoming an international incident. The complaint published in the pages of Repubblica ...

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny urged Italian authorities Tuesday to cancel a concert by Russian ...