An AI-powered robot danced for President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday at an exhibition put on by Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, designed to showcase the company's technological advances. The ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a ...

A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has sentenced members of the musical group Stoptime to another 13 days in jail, local media reported on November 11. The band gained national attention ...

The best folk albums tend to suit this time of year—the muddy oranges, browns and greens; the slowing-down after frenzied summers; the darkness. Blending an embrace of the melancholy with an interest ...

A group of young Russian street musicians who went viral on social media for playing banned anti-Kremlin songs received more jail time on Wednesday, as authorities crack down on buskers who have ...

Folk songs have a particular place in the world. Unlike many other genres, folk songs are meant to be meditated on. Listeners are meant to chew on the lyrics to gain some understanding of the world ...

ST PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) - A teenage Russian street musician was jailed for 13 days on Thursday after she played a banned anti-Kremlin song on St Petersburg's central avenue. Diana Loginova, an ...

A crowd of people gathering in St. Petersburg sang an anti-war song by a Russian musician deemed a “foreign agent” in a video that has gone viral. The clips widely circulated on Telegram showed the ...

LENOX — For decades after the Bolshevik Revolution, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s reinvention of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church went unheard. Tchaikovsky’s composition was a departure from ...

Dance halls, honky-tonks, speakeasies, jazz clubs, ballrooms, rock 'n' roll clubs, discotheques, raves, nightclubs and EDM festivals have different names, but they all have continued to attract music ...

In addition to her new single, Gaga also debuts her guest role as Rosaline Rotwood in the Netflix show's second season. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor The single was released on music streamers ...

Lady Gaga is back with a new song. What’s more, her single “The Dead Dance” gets the music video treatment courtesy of Tim Burton, marking the first time the two creatives have ever worked together.