Popular Russian actress Liya Akhedzhakova, known for her open criticism of Kremlin policies including its ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has left the prominent Moscow theater Sovremennik ...

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry has started to investigate Liya Akhedzhakova, the 85-year-old state-honored actress known as an icon of Soviet and Russian cinema, for “discrediting” the Russian ...

Liya Akhedzhakova, one of Russia’s most acclaimed actors, has never been shy of taking on political leaders. She wrote a letter to Stalin, aged 10, calling for medical help for her mother who had ...