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Europe | Russia | Leadership

Eurasian Women’s Forum: Women in the Changing World

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Women play an increasingly important role in resolving issues that society and the state encounter and in the modern world, they should not face the choice between family and self-fulfillment, According to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the third Eurasian Women’s Forum held in St. Petersburg on October 13-15. “It is completely obvious that in modern conditions a woman should not face the choice between children and family or professional fulfillment. That is why in Russia the conditions are consistently created for a woman after childbirth to begin or resume her professional ca
Europe | Russia | Sports

Woman floors Putin in judo sparring session…Funny

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The Russian president joined a training session with the national judo team in Sochi, Russia, during which he took part in some light sparring. On Thursday, Putin faced off against Natalia Kuzyutina, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Video of their sparring session was shown on state broadcaster RT's Spanish channel, and it shows Kuzyutina pulling Putin to the ground. Kuzyutina was clearly thrilled with the opportunity to grapple with the Russian president, posting twice about the training session on Instagram. "Thank you for the honor," she said, per Google Tran
Europe | Russia | Career

‘Who do you think you are?’ Siberia’s only woman blacksmith laughs off sexist taunts

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As one of only three known female blacksmiths in the whole of Russia, Anna Biletskaya, has found fame, but also scorn, for picking a traditionally masculine profession, which she is helping to save from extinction. Just four years ago, Biletskaya was unemployed, and looking for career advice at the local employment office, when she dared to say out loud an idea she had been carrying inside her head for years. “I have a legal education and an art school behind me, but my last job was a secretary,” Biletskaya told Ruptly’s crew as she waited for the forge at her workshop in the res
Europe | Russia | Space

Russian women together for eight days emerge from space test, missed family more than showering

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An eight-day experiment imitating a space trip to the Moon, dubbed Luna-2015, has finished for the all-female Russian crew. The six women, who were locked inside simulated spacecraft. This marks the first time that the crew is all-female, and at least one of the experiment’s participants hopes to become a real cosmonaut in the future. "Of course I want to go into space. This has been a priceless experience in the isolation that comes with space flight," Inna Novinova told journalists. The crew were banned from taking their cell phones with them, and stayed in touch only with the med
Europe | Russia | Science

All-female Russian crew starts Moon mission test

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Six Russian women on Wednesday clambered into a mock spaceship to begin a unique experiment testing how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the Moon and back. For eight days, the female volunteers will live inside a wood-panelled suite of rooms at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems, renowned for its wacky research into the psychological and physical effects of space travel. The institute in 2010 locked six male international volunteers in an isolation experiment lasting 520 days, to simulate a flight to Mars and back. "Such a crew is taking part for the first time in
Europe | Russia | Adventure

Russian women repeat Gunko route on Alexander Block Peak in Kyrgyzstan’s Aksu

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A small team of female mountaineers from Siberia's Krasnoyarsk composed of Marina Popova, Julia Borisova, Alexandra Mentovskaya and Olesya Babushkina has repeated the route on West Face of Peak Block, first climbed by Vladimir Gunko, Georgiy Kalita and Pavel Vlasenko in 2010. Three and a half days climbing the mountain, cold nights spent in a portaledge, difficult weather conditions - all this resulted in a great experience for the women. Making the first repeat of the Gunko route was the female team's prime objective and the reasons for this are simple: the route is not an skyhook line str
Europe | Russia | Crimes

Ukrainian pilot tells court she was smuggled into Russia at gunpoint

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Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, on trial for the murder of two Russian journalists, said Tuesday she was captured by pro-Kremlin separatists and then smuggled into Russia by armed, masked men. "I am a prisoner of war and a hostage who has been abducted," Savchenko told the court in a dramatic speech, saying separatist rebels captured her in eastern Ukraine and told her they would "sell" her to Russia. The 34-year-old military helicopter navigator was testifying for the first time at her high-profile trial in the small border town of Donetsk in southern Russia. The case has made her a nati
Europe | Russia | Science

World’s first female cosmonaut to tell London audiences about future of space flights

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World’s first woman cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is expected to tell the visitors to Science Museum in London on Thursday about the future of space flights in Russia. As of September 18, the museum hosts an exhibition ‘Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age’. "The space exhibition will serve, I hope, further development of good relations between our countries and will enable the spectators to see what the age of space flights began with in Russia," Tereshkova who has the rank of the Major-General, told reporters.
Europe | Russia | Crimes

Boxing world champion shoots 19-year-old in road rage incident

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A champion of women’s Thai boxing gave a new meaning to the phrase “road rage” when she shot a passenger in the car next to hers at point blank range. Oksana Kizhnerova, 24, a member of the Russian national Thai boxing team, a gold medalist in the European championship and in the World Martial Arts Games, was driving in the Siberian city of Omsk when she was cut off by another driver. Kizhnerova caught up with the car and opened fire out of her ‘traumatic pistol’ – a non-lethal weapon that can still cause serious injury which has become quite popular in Russia. Though s
Europe | Russia | Crimes

Russian Lawmakers Consider Letting Cops Shoot at Women

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Federal lawmakers are considering amending a law that prohibits police officers from firing into crowds or at women, newspaper Kommersant reported Thursday. A bill introduced to the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, stipulates that police officers would be granted a “presumption of trust and support,” meaning they would not face prosecution for any action taken while on duty, so long as the action was taken for a valid purpose and in accordance with existing laws. At present, police are prohibited from shooting at women in general. The draft legislation, introduced by l
Europe | Russia | Science

WOMAN on the moon: Russia to send female scientists on mock-up voyage to the lunar surface

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Russia will send six women scientists on a mock up flight to the moon and back to study how the female mind and body reacts. The eight day experiment comes as Moscow space chiefs plan to make their first visit to the earth's satellite and in order to set up a lunar base. A total of 10 women have been selected, of whom six will make the 'voyage,' locked in a cramped fake spacecraft for the time it takes to fly to the moon, orbit once, and return.
Europe | Russia | Sports

Russian women jump to new heights in Trampoline finals

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They might be just an 'experimental pair' with only a week's training behind them, but Russian trampoline gymnasts Yana Pavlova and Anna Kornetskaya won gold in the synchronised final by almost two points over silver medallists Marine Jurbert and Joelle Vallez of France. Pavlova's success brought up her second gold medal on the final day of the Baku 2015 Gymnastics competition, as she also finished first in the individual competition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=152&v=jQEdHyKx__I
Europe | Russia | Activism

Domestic violence in Russia: Optimism as country faces up to the ‘silent crisis’

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Twenty-five years ago, Marina Pisklakova-Parker phoned the police to report a case of domestic violence. The mother of her son’s classmate had been beaten by her husband after a button fell off his suit. Her face was left badly bruised and swollen. The response from the Russian police was to be expected: “It’s a private matter, we don’t intervene,” they said. She tried calling up hospitals and social services, but the response was the same – no one wanted to know. Ms Pisklakova-Parker went on to found Russia’s national centre for violence prevention, also known
Europe | Russia | History

From Bletchley girls to Russian aces: the forgotten women at war

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The Bletchley Girls Tessa Dunlop Hodder & Stoughton, 341pp, £20 Defending the Motherland: the Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler’s Aces Lyuba Vinogradova; translated by Arch Tait MacLehose Press, 349pp, £20 This is real feminist history - work which was unheralded not just because it was top secret, but because women did it. “It was astonishing what young women could be trained to do.” There is a note of surprise in the postwar review of the work that went on at Bletchley Park – for decades a site shrouded in secrecy but now known the world over as the place where t

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