In Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet ...

But at the request of Russia's Prosecutor General's Office, VKontakte blocked the page of the fictional poet within Russia on July 4, independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA reported on Saturday.

“People say poets are mad,” Maria Stepanova writes in her new book-length poem, “Holy Winter 20/21.”When I spoke with her over Zoom earlier this year, however, the Russian poet seemed well ...

Russian poets given long jail terms for reciting verses against Ukraine war. Artyom Kamardin, 33, and Yegor Shtovba, 23, sentenced for ‘undermining national security’, ‘inciting hatred’.

Organized by the regional government of Tver, a city northwest of Moscow, the competition is named for the late prize-winning Russian poet Andrey Dementyev, who died in 2018.

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Two Russian poets have been handed long jail sentences for taking part in a reading of anti-war poems in Moscow. A Moscow court gave Artyom Kamardin seven years and Yegor Shtovba five and a half ...

A Russian poet was given a 7-year prison sentence Thursday for reciting verses against Russia's war in Ukraine, a tough punishment that comes during a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent.

A poet celebrated in Russia for glorifying the war in Ukraine has been revealed as the creation of an exiled anti-Putin ...

LONDON — A Russian poetry competition has banned transgender people from submitting entries this year, in what it says is an effort to protect traditional values. The Andrei Dementyev All ...