Italy faces internal division over an upcoming performance by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev at a state-backed music festival, with critics arguing the event risks legitimizing Kremlin propaganda ...

A concert in Italy featuring Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who has ties to Putin, is sparking a furor following protests ...

Valery Gergiev, the world-renowned orchestra conductor with links to the Kremlin, prepares to perform at a state-backed music festival in southern Italy on 27 July despite mounting concern over his ...

Tuscan winemakers eye new markets after latest US tariff threat, Italy urged to cancel concert led by pro-Putin conductor, ...

How is it possible that in the summer of 2025, three years after the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Valery Gergiev, Putin’s accomplice and a person included on the sanctions lists of several ...

Poland is leading European efforts to use frozen Russian assets to fund Trump's $10 billion weapons package for Ukraine rather than burden European taxpayers with the costs.

The Commission failed to land final numbers, six commissioners rebelled, and Parliament briefings were repeatedly delayed or cancelled throughout the day.

The symbolic place of Italian artistic heritage, one of the most intense voices in contemporary theater and cinema, and the immortal music of Antonio Vivaldi: thus opens, on Saturday, July 19, at ...