The presence of troops has brought fear instead of security in parts of western Russia.

Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly released Motherland, the Russian American journalist does a full-on investigation ...

Russian government plans to raise the pension age have sparked a rare outpouring of anger, not least among women who say it will cause hardship at a stage of life when they already struggle to work.

Facing what activists say is a hardening of repression inside Chechnya amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Asil and Aishat, both young women, recently fled their violent families in search of safety.

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A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia. MOSCOW—Julia Ioffe’s new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco), immediately ...