Julia Ioffe is an award-winning Russian-born American journalist and author specializing in Russia-U.S. relations and ...

Aishat Baimuradova fled her home last year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her rented flat.

“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.” “I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border ...

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These newly assumed positions have had positive impacts on gender dynamics and women’s position in society. The “cult of berehynia”, the notion of Ukrainian women as the home protectress, has weakened ...

KYIV and KHARKIV, Ukraine — Maryna Mytsiuk spends her free time at a shooting range outside Kyiv, hyper-focused on hitting her targets. She's got to practice. She's waiting for a call that, any day, ...

United Nations independent experts on Monday called on Russia to end long-standing trafficking and forced labor of migrant women, predominantly from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, in the Golyanovo ...

An art student, an accountant, a sniper, an acrobat and a journalist: Ukraine’s all-women drone unit stakes its place in a ...