The Dialectics

War Over Music: A Political Resistance in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The start of Russia’s full-scale military incursion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, marked a sea change for both nations’ music industries. Russia is the 16th largest music market in the world, according to the 2020 IFPI Global Music Report, and several music corporations have stopped their services and operations in Russia since the invasion. […]