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

In the summer of 2023, a poet by the name of Gennady Rakitin began publishing his “patriotic” works on VKontakte, Russia’s version of Facebook. He wrote about war, mercenaries killed in action, the ...

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, ... Russia: Poetry Underground.

Poetry seemingly praising Vladmir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine has been blocked by Russian authorities after its was discovered to be reworked Nazi verse from the 1930s and 1940s, it has been ...

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 ...

Three Russian men, held after joining a reading of poems critical of Moscow's Ukraine offensive, each face up to a decade in prison, a lawyer told AFP Tuesday.

Artyom Kamardin read a poem criticising Russia's war in Ukraine in September 2022 Two Russian poets have been handed long jail sentences for taking part in a reading of anti-war poems in Moscow. A ...