The real-life Queen’s Gambit: how Georgia’s Nona Gaprindashvili conquered the chess world
Vagina Matters: how a Bulgarian sex ed book triggered national outrage
5 feminist collectives leading the charge for women’s rights in Poland
‘This is what a revolution looks like’: Poland’s abortion law protests, in photographs
Worker, mother, athlete: women in Soviet propaganda posters
Cloche hats and two-part suits: flick through the pages of a Soviet women’s magazine from 1928
We run this: smashing misogyny in Romanian hip-hop
Russia’s most esteemed director has escaped jail time. But what comes next for Russian artists?
The story behind the 70s samizdat that launched late Soviet feminism
Romanian writers condemn ban on gender theory in schools and universities
Polish women under lockdown couldn’t protest the latest anti-abortion law on the streets — so they got creative
How one Russian rock concert transformed into an international movement against domestic abuse
Meet the Kazakh boxing champ mixing self-defence classes with legal help for women
Armenia’s first feminist podcast is fighting on new frontiers for the country’s post-revolutionary culture
Discover the overlooked women artists who changed art history in Armenia and the world
Meet the pioneers running Kyrgyzstan’s all-woman space agency
Underground artists unite for Moscow gig in support of sisters at heart of controversial domestic abuse trial
Super Mamio: this Russian ‘video game’ highlights the struggle of single parents
