The wealthiest woman on the African continent is, apparently, a Russian citizen.

170 years ago this week, January 15, 1850, the mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya was born.

Among “the Terrible’s” unfortunate wives, Maria Temryukovna, his second, is an interesting case.

An excerpt from the new translation of a novel by Karolina Pavlova (1807-1893), translated by Barbara Heldt.

March 8 struggles with the duality of being the day of women and the day of “womanness.”

In the summer of 1922, Ruth Epperson Kennell, a children’s librarian, left New York City for the far reaches of Siberia. She travelled with her husband Frank and 132 other ‘pioneers' who were eager to establishing industrial and agricultural communes to aid the ‘new Russia’.

What’s more surprising, fake feminists or fish with bad teeth?

On why #metoo is not taking hold in Russia.

Maria Zakharova, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department, sits down to talk with Russian Life about what it means to be a woman in a position of influence.

Over the 70-year lifespan of the “most equal and democratic nation” known as the Soviet Union, just a handful of women rose to the rank of ambassador. A few more have attained this level since 1991, yet diplomacy in Russia remains largely a male preserve.

On International Women's Day, our Children of 1917 project, and a colleague who will be missed.

Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Svitskaya made history when they were the first woman in space and first woman to walk in space, respectfully. Elena V. Kondakova represents the new age of Russian Federation cosmonauts as a member of the US/Russian STS-84 crew.