MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin, who has long cultivated an aura of machismo as Russia’s strongman leader, is enlisting women to grow ...

and the previously year-long contracts have become indefinite. As of early December 2023, approximately 45,000 women were incarcerated in Russia, a figure highlighted by human rights council ...

Ms. Kovalenko has long spoken openly about the assault on her, which occurred in 2014 during the war with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Relatively few women in Ukraine have come ...