In Putin’s Russia, musicians face arrests for protest songs

Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, Yekaterina Samutsevich, left, and Maria Alekhina, centre, sit behind a ...

Putin’s ‘invincible’ hypersonic missiles downed with MUSIC as Ukrainian forces jam signals

PUTIN’S “invincible” hypersonic missiles are being foiled by Ukraine’s latest defence strategy: music. A crack team of ...

Russia’s Gen Z Uprising Might Accomplish What the West Can’t

A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ...
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Russia revives Soviet-era song contest

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Russian President Vladimir Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its ...
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Hundreds gather for rare anti-Putin demonstration in St Petersburg singing protest songs: ‘The old man clings to his throne’

Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of St Petersburg in a rare moment of protest against Russian president Vladimir Putin to sing anti-war songs. A crowd of young people gathered to sing ...

How a teen street musician became the face of the Kremlin's crackdown

Diana Loginova, the 18-year-old student and street musician, has emerged as an unlikely — and perhaps unwilling — voice of ...
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Russia revives Soviet-era song contest

This weekend, more than 20 former Soviet nations competed at Intervision 2025. Putin revived the song contest after Russia was banned from Eurovision in response to its war in Ukraine. This weekend, ...