Russia continues to pressure musicians who have spoken out against the country’s invasion of Ukraine as the Kremlin seeks to squash any signs of opposition to its unprovoked war. Police in Moscow ...

Veteran Russian rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov, who currently resides out of Russia, has been charged with discrediting Russian armed forces involved in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...

Members of the Russian rock band Bi-2 were allowed to fly to Israel after some of their members risked being deported from Thailand to Russia, the band's lawyer told independent media outlet Mediazona ...

RIGA, Latvia — Members of a prominent self-exiled Russian rock group that publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine may face deportation from Thailand back to Moscow. Supporters fear that musicians in ...

When I was growing up, bands like Kino, Aquarium and Alisa typically replaced the before-bedtime soundtrack of Raffi or Mozart, the sound of underground Russian rock filling our standard modern house ...

A Russian court has sentenced three musicians to jail, after footage of their band playing a banned anti-Kremlin song in St Petersburg went viral online. The artists are the latest to rebel against ...

In this episode of the Highlights Podcast, Alexander Herbert, a PhD candidate in the history department, discusses his book, What About Tomorrow?: An Oral History of Russian Punk from the Soviet Era ...