While addressing a crowd at the Eurasian Women's Forum in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed government policy geared toward helping women achieve the ultimate ...

President Vladimir Putin sent a mixed message to Russia's women to mark International Women's Day, lauding their contribution in the war against Ukraine while emphasizing that the most important duty ...

Russia could start conscripting women to join the war against Ukraine as part of ongoing mobilization efforts, according to a former commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces. Army General ...

Russia’s recognition of the Taliban provides much sought-after legitimacy to a regime that is enforcing the world’s most extreme version of gender apartheid. In 1979, Russia, as the Soviet Union, ...

Russian military efforts to recruit women from prisons and civilian life have clashed with President Vladimir V. Putin’s conservative agenda. By Anatoly Kurmanaev and Ekaterina Bodyagina The Russian ...

In protest of recent efforts in Russia to restrict abortion, Russian women issued a warning to President Vladimir Putin on Monday saying, "No abortion, no sex." Although abortion is still legal and ...

Photographer Svetlana Likhanova has been exploring the villages of Russia’s Kuznetsk Basin for the past several years, a theme that has become a quiet obsession Svetlana Likhanova was born in Yurga, a ...

"Feed the children of the defenders of the motherland," "Top up the soldiers' families' ration, defenders of freedom and the ...

Vladimir Putin carefully selected his competition for Russia’s presidential election this month: three compliant men in grey suits who pose no threat to his power. Women are completely absent from the ...

December 1 is World AIDS Day. Last week, the project To Be Precise published two reports about how HIV is transmitted in contemporary Russia and what living with the illness looks like. Meduza ...