The fate of Ryazan's Art and History Museum could set a precedent for restitution
Businessmen and collectors fund $4m complex
Tretyakov curator speaks out and admits being taken in by forgers
Putin looks to UK to save listed buildings
Viktor Vekselberg will establish galleries in St Petersburg and Moscow to display his own art as well as works belonging to other private collectors
Russian collector Pyotr Aven shows his hand
Collector and dealer Alexander Yakut's new enterprise is his most ambitious yet
Industrialist Oleg Deripaska has become the Russian museum’s most generous private donor—even if his support is part of a public relations initiative
The Konstmuseum in Malmö allegedly kept works lent to the gallery before the outbreak of the First World War
Director and curator charged with “incitement of national, racial, or religious enmity”
Built without a single nail, the Church of the Transfiguration of the Saviour will have to be taken apart in order to save it
He ordered the governor of Novgorod to make builders wait until archaeologists had finished excavating
Alexander Sokolov does not seem interested in returning looted art
Traces of Malevich's signature found on 1913 painting
A legal loophole may enable the restitution to Germany of a collection taken to the USSR by a Soviet army officer in 1945
Unlike the heirs of Nazi victims, the descendants of collectors whose art was appropriated by the Bolsheviks are unlikely to have it returned
Local authorities have not been sympathetic towards Malevich's estate where he was buried
The painting is currently with Russia's Culture Ministry, though Malevich's heirs dispute the bank's original ownership
A medieval stained-glass window to return to Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, while Germany will pay for the rebuilding of a 14th-century church in the Pskov region
Russia’s first Andy Warhol exhibition has opened at the State Hermitage Museum
The collections of two museums in Grozny have disappeared and the region’s distinctive stone towers are caught in the crossfire
Museum bought works after artist abandoned them in Berlin
Former atheist goes to confession
The Shah's policy decreed that private individuals could sponsor excavations and keep a portion of the finds
Constitutional court decides in favour of nationalists’ bill
This marks the first in a series of planned loans of modern and contemporary American works from MoMA to the Hermitage
Unlike Venice, St Petersburg is building a flood barrier, but needs more money
Holland will not be participating in the Biennales of Sidney and São Paolo as a result