When Vladimir Putin launched Russia's large-scale offensive against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Varvara felt "despair and ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

March 8 is International Women's Day — a date picked in honor of a remarkable Russian protest. During World War I, women in ...

On a steamy August afternoon in Washington, D.C., the National Guard was on its way and Julia Ioffe arrived for lunch at a strip mall in the suburbs. Ioffe, 43, a Russian American journalist, said the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there were four women named Yaryna Chornohuz, they would all be 30 years old, all born in Kyiv, yet each would follow a ...

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 ...

Young women from a dozen Latin American countries came to Russia seeking travel and opportunity with plans to break into the hospitality industry through a work exchange – and ended up manufacturing ...

Dilbar has languished in pretrial detention for months in the Russian city of Omsk, where she said she was beaten, shocked with a taser, and threatened by prison officers. As she awaits trial on ...

Russia’s trap that has been netting African women in slave-like labour in its Special Economic Zone that lies at least 650 miles southeast of Moscow is turning out to be another problem that Moscow ...