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Protests against conscription to fight in Ukraine are particularly dramatic in many of the minority (non-Russian) areas of the Russian Federation. The Feminist Anti-war Resistance published one subscriber’s monologue about misogyny during the protests in Dagestan, Northern Caucasus.
“I am a (...)
On September 21, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would officially begin conscripting people to fight in the country’s war against Ukraine. Contrary to what the bulk of media coverage has suggested, cisgender men aren’t the only people at risk of being sent to war. Some cisgender women and (...)
The return of the awarded title of “Mother Heroine” is another attempt by Russia to dress up the invasion of Ukraine in the uniform of the Great Patriotic War. What principles underlay the Soviet version of the order? What does its recovery say today? Gender studies researcher Sasha Talaver (...)
How does the government regulate the birth rate? Will the war in Ukraine lead to a ban on abortions? What is “gender backlash”? Anastasia Novkunskaya on reproductive policy and gender violence during militarization
Gender studies has often been attacked by the Russian conservative public as a (...)
The shrinking population of today’s Russia is a sure sign of the failure of its economic and political project. It is telling that neither the new week-long waiting period before an abortion, nor ‘traditional values’ propaganda, nor even ‘maternity capital’ (welfare payments to families to be used (...)
Russian feminists have been at the forefront of the opposition to Russian imperialism’s invasion of Ukraine. They issued a manifesto and launched Feminist Antiwar Resistance. At the start of the war, they helped organize protests. Faced with harsh repression, arrest, fines, and prison sentences, (...)
The Russian government and its propaganda forces justify the war in Ukraine with claims of the “Nazism” of Ukrainian authorities and average Ukrainians. They claim that the destruction of the Russian language and persecution of Russian speakers living in Ukraine as an example of Nazism in (...)
After Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin imposed drastic laws that impose prison sentences of up to 15 years for those who call out the war and Russia’s crimes. In so doing, Russia has dismantled a varied and rich mediascape.
I have been researching independent (...)
The day after the start of the “special operation”, the Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAS) appeared - a semi-partisan activist movement that launches anti-war actions and tries to break the information blockade in Russia. One of the founders of the FAS, Daria Serenko, continues the conversation (...)
In early March, Russian feminists joined forces and organised Feminist Anti-War Resistance (FAR), currently the most organised anti-war movement in Russia. Viktorya Kokoreva contacted a member of its coordination group, Russian feminist activist and historian Ella Rossman. They talked about the (...)
The estimated number of civilian deaths in Mariupol is 5,000. Russia has been bombing residential areas in Mariupol since the first days of the war. At this moment the city is blocked by Russian troops: those who survived the bombings cannot receive food and medication, nor can they leave the (...)
More and more women in Russia are taking to the streets in protests.
On Feb. 23, Daria Serenko, a Moscow political activist, was finally released from a fifteen-day jail sentence.
Daria had been arrested for an Instagram post she had made in 2021 that featured “extremist” symbols associated (...)
A phone recording captured details of police brutality against Russian anti-war protesters
Record numbers of people have been detained at anti-war protests across Russia since the country’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.
Although mass coordinated protests have been hampered by the Russian (...)
Here are two texts from the Feminist Anti-War Resistance telegram channel, addressed to opponents of the Russian war on Ukraine internationally
March 8: laying flowers, all-Russian campaign
Note to readers outside Russia about the context. First, legislation signed by president Putin (...)
In today’s Russia, feminists form one of the most active social movements defying state repression. Now they’re uniting to resist Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Presentation The below text is a manifesto by Russian feminists who have united against the occupation and war in Ukraine. Feminism is (...)
Four activists from the country’s regions explain how they’re trying to bring feminism to a wider audience
A new wave of feminist activism is spreading across Russia, breaking boundaries both online and off. These initiatives tackle all kinds of topics; some provide help for victims of domestic (...)
Campaigners say sharp decline is due to new law deterring women from contacting police
Protester holds sign saying: “To beat means to love (145 countries have laws against domestic violence)”
Russian women suffering domestic violence are being deterred from going to the police since its (...)
Amid all the fuss in the US about Team Trump’s suspected links with Russia, President Vladimir Putin’s government has just signed a bill into law that effectively decriminalises domestic violence. And this could well be part of a rising conservative tide in the world, seeking to roll back the (...)
Critics say amendment sends wrong message in country where it is estimated domestic abuse kills a woman every 40 minutes
Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial amendment that decriminalises some forms of domestic violence .
The amendment, which sailed through both houses of (...)
When Anna Zhavnerovich wrote about a beating she received from her boyfriend, it triggered a huge reaction. Now there are signs of a political shift in attitudes regarding the campaign to identify domestic violence as a crime.
Anna Zhavnerovich went to the police a week after she says her (...)
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