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Women in Russia have a rich and varied history during numerous regimes throughout the centuries. Since Russian society is multicultural, the experiences...

Women of Russia (Russian: Женщины России, romanized: Zhenshchiny Rossii, abbreviated ZhR) was a political bloc in Russia. The party was established in...

promote the equality of men and women. Many early Russian feminists and ordinary Russian working women actively participated in the Revolution, and all were...

Women have played many roles in the Russian and Soviet military history. Women played an important role in world wars in Russia and the Soviet Union,...

In Russia, feminism originated in the 18th century, influenced by the Age of Enlightenment in Western Europe and mostly confined to the aristocracy. Throughout...

issue in Russia. According to Human Rights Watch, citing RIA Novosti, as many as 36,000 women and 26,000 children faced daily abuse at home in 2013. According...

Legally, only women were allowed to own brothels. However, illegal street prostitution was still dominated by male pimps. The term kot (Russian: кот, tomcat)...

Women's reproductive health in Russia refers to the set of physical, mental, and social health issues and services available to women in Russia. It includes...

Abortion in Russia is legal as an elective procedure up to the 12th week of pregnancy, and in special circumstances at later stages. In 2009, Russia reported...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, that began on 24 February 2022, has had a significant impact on women across Ukraine and Russia, both as combatants and...

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, and extends across eleven...

The Russian Women's Cup (Russian: Кубок России) is the national women's football cup competition in Russia. The first edition of the cup was played out...

Revolution: A History of Women in the U.S.S.R. (Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1994), 73. Barbara Alpern Engel, Women in Russia: 1700-2000 (Cambridge University...

Women's association football is a largely amateur sport in Russia, given the greater emphasis of the male competitions. As of 2018, there were 30,000...

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which had started in 2014. The invasion, the largest and...

The People's Party «For Women of Russia» (NPZZhR; Russian: Народная партия «За женщин России»; НПЗЖР; Narodnaya partiya «Za zhenshchin Rossii», NPZZhR)...

cohabitation in and of itself is not a crime. Due to the imbalance between urban educated women and men in predominantly Mongol-inhabited regions of Russia, men...

group of wealthy women concerned with the economic and educational status of women in Russia. The triumvirate, alongside several other women, founded the...

Religion in Russia (2024 estimate) Russian Orthodoxy (61.8%) Other Christian (2.6%) No religion (21.2%) Islam (9.5%) Other religions (1.4%) Undeclared...

minority in the Russian Federation, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe. According to the US Department of State in 2017, Muslims in Russia numbered...