US pianist Van Cliburn, who won a world competition in Moscow at the height of the Cold War and whose music transcended the decades-long standoff, died at age 78 on Wednesday, his foundation said.
Pussy Riot icon Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is behind bars, but her husband is unbowed, saying the punk band’s controversial case has exposed the weaknesses in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rule.
A Russian court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought millions of dollars in damages from Madonna for allegedly traumatizing minors by speaking up for gay rights during a concert in St. Petersburg.
A Moscow court Wednesday hears the appeal of feminist punks Pussy Riot against their two-year prison camp sentence, days after President Vladimir Putin appeared to give his blessing to the verdict.
European activists rallied Friday amid global condemnation of a Russian court’s two year jail sentences on three members of female punk group Pussy Riot over an anti Vladimir Putin stunt in a Moscow church.
A Moscow court on Friday pronounced a guilty verdict in the case of three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot who staged a protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin in a landmark church.
