Organizers in Italy say a concert by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been canceled after protests against giving the stage to a conductor who hasn't condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of people gathered in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv to lodge their protest with the Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration for passing a controversial bill tightening restrictions on its anti-corruption agencies, presenting the war-hit nation with its biggest domestic turmoil since the Russian invasion in February 2022.

KYIV — Ukrainian democracy is proving much stronger than most outsiders — including Russian President Vladimir Putin — believed. But as the full-scale invasion drags into its third year, the strain is starting to show — although Ukraine is still very far from being an authoritarian dictatorship like Russia.

Several dozen people protested in Berlin on Tuesday evening against the performance by Russia-born soprano Anna Netrebko at the Classic Open Air music festival. Up to 200 people participated in the protest called by the Ukraine Solidarity Association Vitsche at the Gendarmenmarkt square in front of the Berlin Concert Hall,

In its latest daily report, the Washington-based think tank says the central theme of Russian narratives around the protests is the claim that Ukrainian officials are stealing Western military aid. However,