Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's most famous fashion designer, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who dressed the country's first ladies, has died at the age of 85, Russian news outlets reported Sunday. An obituary published ...

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 ...

Some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians are in Russian prisons and rights activists say more than 2,000 are female. Some of the women ...

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 ...

The Russian government announced this week it is bringing back a Soviet-era honorary title and financial reward bestowed upon Russian women who have 10 or more children. In a decree this week that ...

The hijab has often split opinion in the world of sports, however, the Russian women’s mini-football (futsal) team have fully embraced this traditional Muslim attire by wearing it during a friendly ...

MOSCOW, August 1. /TASS, Andrey Kartashov/. Three people are viewed as candidates for the post of head coach of the Russian women’s national basketball team, Andrei Kirilenko, the president of the ...