Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, its cultural exports have been viewed with suspicion all over the world, including in traditionally receptive Central Asia. The latest Russian artist to learn that ...

MOSCOW, July 4. /TASS/. Russian singer and song-writer Grigory Leps has paid a 1 million ruble ($11,285) monetary award to a Russian fighter who eliminated a Leopard tank in the special operation zone ...

Kyrgyzstan has become the latest country in Central Asia to cancel a concert by popular Russian singer Grigory Leps over his vocal support of the invasion of Ukraine. The veteran performer had been ...

Central Asian Kazakhstan has cancelled a concert featuring Russian singer Grigory Leps following a wave of outcry over his support of the invasion of Ukraine, local officials announced on Monday. The ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted a popular Russian singer over alleged links to an international criminal group. Grigory Lepsveridze, better known as Grigory Leps, is accused of links to ...

Central Asian Kazakhstan has cancelled a concert featuring Russian singer Grigory Leps following a wave of outcry over his support of the invasion of Ukraine, local officials announced on Monday. The ...

Russia's Foreign Ministry has demanded the United States explain why it blacklisted a popular Russian singer and supporter of President Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury Department this week named ...

Officials in Kazakhstan's southern Almaty region have cancelled a concert by pro-Kremlin Russian singer Grigory Leps amid a public outcry over his support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Almaty city ...

Songs by several Russian singers who have been sanctioned for supporting Russia's war against Ukraine have disappeared from the Spotify streaming service. These include Oleg Gazmanov, Polina Gagarina, ...

Other Russian singers and propagandists have joined the initiative. At one of the events of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, singer Nikolai Baskov said he was ready to pay a million ...

Music streaming service Spotify has removed the pages and songs of several Russian artists who supported the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Among them are Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov), Chicherina, Polina ...