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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nurjamal has been a chef for 10 years in Russia's Khabarovsk region, where she came as a labor migrant from Kyrgyzstan looking for a job. Despite being a Kyrgyz citizen with no Russian passport, ...

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 ...

Two Russian women, who reportedly tricked hundreds of Cubans into coming to Russia under false pretenses, have allegedly been sent to the front lines in Ukraine. Olga Shilyayeva, 41, a part-time ...

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

A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia. MOSCOW—Julia Ioffe’s new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco), immediately ...

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 ...

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 ...