In 2023, Russia broke its own “record” for the number of cases of beating of women. As I said during round table On the issue of organizing the activities of crisis centers for women in difficult living conditions, Moscow Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Potyaeva punished 13,241 people under the administrative article “Beating”.
The Ombudsman described this figure as the highest in the last 5 years. He suggested that administrative penalties should be replaced with criminal sanctions to solve this problem, and that the issue should be developed by creating crisis centers where women affected by domestic violence can receive help.
The video of Potyaeva’s performance was published by the Telegram channel “Attention, news”.
June 19 newspaper kp.ru published The results of a sociological study showed that 41% of the inhabitants of the Russian Federation were subjected to domestic violence. 25% of them said that they were beaten by their husbands or wives at least once in their lives. 9% of the respondents also mentioned domestic violence by their parents.
On the same day, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova stated about the need to reintroduce penalties for domestic violence.
Former imam of Kazan was recorded Video about in what cases it is worth “beating” your wife.