Page 2 - Sovremennik News Today

Celebrated Soviet and Russian actress Liya Akhedzhakova has resigned from the Moscow theater where she has worked for 46 years following her outspoken criticism of the war in Ukraine, Novaya Gazeta reported on Thursday. Moscow’s Sovremennik Theater effectively ended the actress’s decades-long career at the theater in February when it canceled a production of “The Gin Game” in which she had been set to star.

February 23, 2023, 15:42 - BLiTZ - News Russian music producer, laureate of the Ovation Award as the best Producer of the Year, Iosif Prigozhin commented

Before the tanks rolled into Ukraine, liberal values were spreading fast in Russia. That, some observers say, was more threatening to Putin than his neighbour.

Russian society is almost as closed and repressive as it was in Soviet times | Briefing

Ten writers appearing at the Lviv BookForum, run this year in partnership with the Hay festival, discuss why we need books more than ever

Two sabotage groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, numbering up to 60 people, attempted to seize the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on the morning of September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Measures were taken to destroy them. Also, Ukrainian troops are firing artillery at the place where the Russian side is supposed to meet the IAEA mission, which will arrive from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. The provocation on the part of Ukraine is aimed at disrupting the arrival ...

The Kremlin has effectively taken over Russia’s culture industry as the invasion of Ukraine prompted intensifying repression – wit

Gogol Centre theatre, one of the last bastions of artistic freedom in Russia, shut its doors recently with a defiant final show

MOSCOW, July 3 — The Gogol Centre theatre, one of the last bastions of artistic freedom in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, shut its doors Thursday night with a defiant final show...

Russian film director, who fled Russia after criticizing the war in Ukraine, denounced the 'murder' of his former theater.The Gogol Center theater, on