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 ...

Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it’s in free fall. Since 2022, hundreds of thousands of Russians have died or suffered critical injuries in Ukraine. The result: ...

Who are Russian women really? Forget the Hollywood stereotypes and imperial portraits painted by European artists. Today, I’m diving into the lives of Russian women from beauty standards and social ...

The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. But instead of ...

Last October, a feminist group called Korzina in Izhevsk, the capital of Russia’s central Udmurtia region, organized Matka Fest, a series of events on the theme of menstruation. The festival featured ...

A member of the Russian State Duma has proposed releasing women convicted of minor charges from prisons so they can conceive, part of an effort to boost the country's low birthrate amid a period of ...

MINSK, 30 October (BelTA) - An agreement on cooperation and a roadmap were signed in Minsk between the Belarusian Women's Union and the Rostov Oblast branch of the Union of Women of Russia, BelTA has ...

The beauty-products company Avon Products Inc. is in the spotlight after a BBC report said that Avon has maintained links with Russia some 23 months after the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine ...

To hear the Russians tell it, all the world’s women were in chains before Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. As the first woman cosmonaut looped the earth, Tass exulted: “A brilliant star has flared ...

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, ...

TOKYO, July 27. /TASS/. Russia won the gold medal in the women’s artistic gymnastics team event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Tuesday. The squad of Russian athletes was awarded an aggregate ...