Putin’s War on Women – Foreign Policy
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/04/09/putins-war-on-women
Women protest a bill decriminalizing domestic violence in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park in February 2017.
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нет домашнему насилию
заплати и колоти ?
Non à la violence domestique
–Cogner et payer ?_
When Russia decriminalized domestic violence in February 2017, civil servants tasked with protecting women in the country’s far east were dismayed by the new vulnerability of their wards. Yet few officials opposed the measure. President Vladimir Putin signed off on the bill after the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, overwhelmingly approved it by a vote of 380 to 3. The new law recategorized the crime of violence against family members: Abuse that does not result in broken bones, and does not occur more than once a year, is no longer punishable by long prison sentences. The worst sanctions that abusers now face are fines of up to $530, 10- to 15-day stints in jail, or community service work. That’s if the courts side with the victim. They rarely do.
