Let's say you're a cultural attaché working at an American embassy in a country whose relations with the United States have cooled of late. What better way to change the atmosphere—and spice things up ...

The annual contest held in memory of Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist with the Rossiya Segodnya Media Group who was killed near Donetsk in the summer of 2014, traditionally launches on his birthday, ...

Some 20 activists in matching uniform jackets and camouflage from a little-known non-governmental organization called "Officers of Russia" stand outside the doors of the Lumiere Brothers Gallery close ...

A controversial Moscow photography exhibition that critics say amounts to "child pornography" has been closed down following a protest by conservative activists. Anton Tsvetkov, a member of Russia's ...

We came across a fascinating collection of photos of Moscow captured during the early 1900s, organized in an interactive map by Old Moscow Photography. The user-generated site has thousands of images ...

MOSCOW -- A Russian court ordered a photographer and five Greenpeace activists to be held under arrest for two months Thursday pending investigation into an attempt to board an oil drilling platform ...

Frequent readers of this blog might know that I have a minor-grade obsession with European subway station architecture. They are far, far deeper than any American subway stations, plumped deep into ...

Important note: this job description is written in English, the working language of AFP. A Russian translation may be provided upon request, but the English version remains the reference document. AFP ...

Russian prisoners’ rights group Pervy Otdel reported on Friday that a Moscow court sentenced Aleksandr Strukov, the erstwhile photographer affiliated with incarcerated opposition figure Aleksei ...

While staggering auction record peaks were summited this week by some talented human artists, a more amateur representative of an underrepresented artist species is expected to gain some auction ...

Moscow’s Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography has abruptly closed its show of American artist Jock Sturges following complaints that the photographer’s work is child pornography. A group of ...