Hmmm, I initially wanted to agree with the OP, since the whole “Pravda” thing is a naming scheme from Soviet times, but apparently it’s reasonably well regarded:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ukrayinska-pravda-the-ukrainian-truth/
I.e. not at all like Komsomolskaya Pravda, which is straight up Russian yellow press party line nonsense.
Not really saying that it’s independent, just that it’s not a random propaganda rag. Given that they’ve already received a strike mid 2022, they’re operating within a narrow corridor of permitted professionalized speech. Even a budding totalitarian regime is interested in having a decent financial newspaper to prop up the business/investment sector, and RBC is a far cry from the shrill propagandistic dross produced by Kremlin-originating sources. So, I don’t trust them to report everything, but I don’t expect them to outright produce fake news. That goes against the mutually beneficial niche they have settled in.
RBC is actually akin to FT in Europe. And the source is the European commission, a link should be present in the article.
Also, as far as I understand, the victims were mostly unrelated to the exhibition.
Fuck off. This small-minded bullshit is one contributing factor to the rise of despicable systems like the Russian government and many parts of its Putin-supporting society. A blanket reaction against everything Russian dismisses a complexity and common humanity that is crucial for moving beyond petty angry tribalism.