Women of Russia information

multicultural, the experiences of women in Russia vary significantly across ethnic, religious, and social lines. The life of an ethnic Russian woman can be dramatically...

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

commitments to promote the equality of men and women. Many early Russian feminists and ordinary Russian working women actively participated in the Revolution...

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

in Russia and the Soviet Union, particularly during World War II. Women served in the Russian armed forces in small numbers in the early stages of the...

The Union of Women of Russia (Russian: Союз женщин России (СЖР); known before 1991 as the Soviet Women's Committee) was a women's political organisation...

February. International Women's Day on 8 March, gained momentum in Russia during the Soviet era. The annual celebration of women has become so popular,...

political parties in Russia. The Russian Federation has a de jure multi-party system, however it operates as a dominant-party system. As of 2020[update], six...

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...

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

Petrakova-Parker (Russian: Анна Викторовна Петракова, born 4 December 1984) is a Russian professional basketball player. She was part of the Russia women's national...

(Russian: Фёдор I Иванович) or Feodor I Ioannovich (Феодор I Иоаннович; 31 May 1557 – 17 January 1598), nicknamed the Blessed (Блаженный), was Tsar of...

is a list of women who served as heads (governors) of Federal subjects of Russia. The first female head of a federal subject in the Russian Federation...

Russian Women (Russian: Ру́сские же́нщины, romanized: Russkiye zhenshchiny) is a two-poem cycle by Nikolai Nekrasov, telling the stories of two women...

As of the 2021 census, the population of Russia was 147.2 million. It is the most populous country in Europe, and the ninth-most populous country in the...

outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Russia. The Russian Federation, commonly known as Russia, is the most extensive country in the...

This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia. The list begins with the semi-legendary prince Rurik of Novgorod, sometime in the mid-9th...

Machine (in Russian) "People and Cultures: Russians" book published by Russian Academy of Sciences Pre-Revolutionary photos of women in Russian folk dress...

history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus'...

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

1060 people died of domestic violence in Russia. Of them, 756 were men and 304 women. According to an independent study of 2,200 women in fifty cities...

On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014. The invasion became the largest attack on...

Petrovna (Russian: Елизаве́та Петро́вна; 29 December [O.S. 18 December] 1709 – 5 January [O.S. 25 December] 1762) reigned as Empress of Russia from 1741...