A Russian mega-pop star’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has set off intense reactions on social media, posing a critical question: Will the iconic singer’s disapproving ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian pop star Valeriya says she is drawing on her experience as a battered wife and "slave" to help migrant workers break free of sexual exploitation and forced labor in her ...

Russian pop singer Larisa Dolina’s black sprinter van rolled right past the journalists waiting for her out front of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow. “Death threats,” said a representative ...

Elizaveta Gyrdymova — better known as Russian pop sensation Monetochka — remembers a different Russia. Growing up in the 2000s, she recalls her hometown of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains as a ...

While mainstream Russian pop artists have found themselves “canceled” in other Central Asian countries following Moscow’s brutal invasion in Ukraine, at least three will be on stage to ring in ...