This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, ...

In Russian pop culture, this kind of advertising — Centro is a shoe brand — is normal. Not even beer is safe. This lottery ad harkens to the Soviet era, in which women performed drudgery in ...

High-profile critics like Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Safe Internet League, known for her campaigns against "dangerous content" in Russian pop culture, called for a state-level boycott of the ...

This started out as a bit of disrespectful mickey-taking of Russian popular culture. And I’ve got what I deserved: dozens of lovely little Russian earworms running around my head. I'll give you ...

From action movies to techno music clips, videos on Russian social media urge young men to join the Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine. The pop culture push is even more important as ...

TASS/. Over 183,000 people attended the Comic Con Russia pop culture convention and the Igromir gaming expo held in Moscow on October 3-6, the event’s press service informed on Tuesday.

One of Russia's most popular singers, Alla Pugacheva, has called on the Russian authorities to declare her a "foreign agent", in solidarity with her strongly anti-war husband Maxim Galkin.