Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Chekov beware: Putin is coming for the books. The latest front in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on LGBTQ+ people is purging books with LGBTQ+ content from Russia’s ...

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) -In a bookstore in the Russian city of St Petersburg, employees are painstakingly cutting out labels, placing them on the covers of books and sealing the volumes in clear ...

By Lucy Papachristou April 22 (Reuters) - One of Russia's largest publishers said on Wednesday that some staff were being ...

Raid is part of Moscow’s hardline social conservatism and clampdown on political life.

In Vladimir Putin's Russia, writing about the war in Ukraine, the church or LGBTQ+ life could land you in jail. A new organization helps authors... In exile, Russian book publishers revive Soviet-era ...

Mikhail Zygar was the founding editor in chief of TV Rain, Russia’s lone independent news television station until it went into exile in 2022, and the author of “All the Kremlin’s Men” and “The Empire ...

GOGOL (329 pp.)—David Magarshack —Grove Press ($6.50). Nikolai Gogol was one of those truly bizarre characters who appeared in. and occasionally wrote, the great Russian novels of the 19th century. He ...

In Vladimir Putin's Russia, writing about certain subjects — the war in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church or LGBTQ+ life — can mean prison time. But for a new generation of Russian writers living ...