Russia

A new TV series will tell the story of Pussy Riot’s rise to infamy

Based on the memoir of Nadya Tolokonnikova, the show is set dramatise the protest group’s origins and groundbreaking political actions

Film & TV

Dec 06, 2023

Thom Waite

Film & TV

Queendom: an inspiring new doc about a fearless trans artist from Russia

Powerful but at times harrowing, Queendom tells the inspirational story of Russian performance artist Gena Marvin, who discusses her experiences here with Jake Hall

Film & TV

Nov 24, 2023

Jake Hall

Music

Kedr Livansky is the celestial pop star creating her own reality

Fresh off the release of her new EP K-Notes, the singer and producer talks teenage goth eras, Argentinian telenovelas, and why she never left her punk past behind

Music

Jun 23, 2023

Elliot Hoste

Art & Photography

Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova joins Russia’s most wanted list

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant in the wake of the artist’s provocative performance piece, Putin’s Ashes

Art & Photography

Mar 30, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

The foreign agent law: why protestors are raving in the streets of Tbilisi

The Georgian government has withdrawn its repressive ‘foreign agent’ law in response to backlash, but demonstrations are set to continue

Life & Culture

Mar 09, 2023

Thom Waite

Art & Photography

YOUTH: How Anne Imhof’s apocalyptic artwork came to life

Shot days before the outbreak of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the acclaimed artist’s Moscow-set film has become a symbol of freedom, hope, and mourning for lost futures, broadcast worldwide via CIRCA

Art & Photography

Feb 13, 2023

Thom Waite

Art & Photography

Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on casting a spell to kill Putin

The protest collective’s first solo gallery show invites you to don a balaclava and watch magic and activism collide

Art & Photography

Jan 27, 2023

Thom Waite

Life & Culture

The Doomsday Clock is now the closest to midnight it’s ever been

We are all going to die x

Life & Culture

Jan 25, 2023

Serena Smith

Art & Photography

Zula Rabikowska, “Norvina”, Nothing But a Curtain

These photos explore gender identity in the ‘shadow of communism’

Zula Rabikowska spent 100 days travelling through former-Soviet countries meeting young people born since the fall of the Berlin Wall

Art & Photography

Jan 18, 2023

Madeleine Pollard

Film & TV

TraumaZone: Adam Curtis’s nightmarish study of the Soviet Union’s downfall

The documentarian’s new series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, is a dark and eerily familiar look at the collapse of the Soviet Union

Film & TV

Oct 21, 2022

Diyora Shadijanova

Art & Photography

Photographers are selling prints to help children devastated by war

Dust Off is a print sale dedicated to raising money for War Child UK, and includes work from Willy Vanderperre, Walter Pfeiffer and Tim Walker

Art & Photography

Oct 12, 2022

Emily Dinsdale

Film & TV

This doc explores love and loss in the ‘depression federation’ of Russia

‘I thought people killing themselves was a normal part of life’: Marusya Syroechkovskaya casts a heartbreaking spell with her film How to Save a Dead Friend, a tale of love, addiction and redemption in Russia

Film & TV

May 30, 2022

Alex Denney

Politics

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina on art and activism in wartime Russia

After a daring escape from Moscow, Alyokhina has regrouped with the punk collective to ‘stand with Ukraine during the terrifying war that Putin started’

Politics

May 27, 2022

Thom Waite

Life & Culture