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

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

In autumn 1941 volunteers from the Airdrie branch of the Russia Today Society decided to send messages of support to women in Leningrad.

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Anna Rivina, in the Moscow office of Nasiliu.net, a nonprofit that supports victims of domestic violenceNanna Heitmann—Magnum Photos for TIME As Nastya waits for her husband Kirill to come home from ...

Dhaka, March 13 -- The Russian House in Dhaka on Friday organised a special painting master class titled "Great Women", in collaboration with the Serov Academy of Fine Arts on the occasion 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 ...

Combat medic Olena Ivanenko, 44, whose military call sign is "Ryzh," takes a break from the front line in the northeastern city of Sumy, Ukraine, earlier this year. (Anton Shtuka for NPR) KYIV and ...

Russian authorities are restricting access to safe abortion care and limiting the ability of women and girls to get accurate information about their reproductive choices. Russian authorities are ...

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 ...