In a decision hailed as the first of its kind in Russia, a St. Petersburg court has ruled that a printing house illegally fired a transgender woman who had worked there for years as a man. On April 9, the Frunze District Court ordered the printing house to give Anna Grigoryeva her job back and pay her 10,000 rubles ($155) for moral damages as well as 1.8 million rubles ($27,800) in overdue wages.

Grigoryeva, who worked at the printing house for 10 years as a man, was fired in 2017 after she re-registered with the authorities as a woman. The employer said she was dismissed because she was in a job that by law can be performed by men only. A Russian government resolution adopted in 2000 prohibits women from working in more than 35 industries and more then 450 specific jobs deemed dangerous or "arduous."

Critics likened it to Soviet-era regulations that sought to restrict women to what the Communist Party once called their "traditional" role of bearing children for the greater good of society. Read more via RFE/RL