😥 ~ Russian Domestic Violence: Women Fight Back (GAOG) ~ | .. Russian domestic violence: Women fight back .. | Blogger: [😲OMG! What a terrible story at first, but justice has been served⚖️] ... Just because #Russophobia is everywhere and misused as a western political tool, it doesn't mean, that woman and homosexuality e.g. in Russia, are better treated or conditioned, than in the Western countries. SoTW used to be married to a woman from Ukraine, and that's even a worse place to be living in, if you're a woman... Lucky, "Margaritas mutilated left hand was retrieved from the forest and sewn back on in a nine-hour operation. A crowdfunding campaign raised six million roubles (£73,000) for a prosthetic right hand, which was fitted in Germany. Although she is maimed for life, Margarita could easily have suffered a worse fate. Russia doesn't keep statistics on deaths arising from intimate partner violence, but the Interior Ministry says 40% of grave and violent crimes happen inside the family. The most conservative estimates suggest that domestic violence kills hundreds of women a year"... Prayers go out to womans like Margarita Gracheva and to change the system within Russian parliament...🙏 |

Two years ago, many Russians were shocked when the parliament significantly reduced penalties for domestic violence. Since then, women have been fighting back - demanding new legislation to restrain abusers, demonstrating in support of three sisters who took the law into their own hands, and finding new ways of tackling outdated attitudes on gender.

On a blustery, grey afternoon, Margarita Gracheva takes her small sons to the playground. They run ahead then jump on to the swings and shoot down the slide. "They're pretty independent for their age," she says. "They know I can't do up their buttons or tie their shoelaces, so they've learned to do it themselves."

On the morning of 11 December 2017 Margarita's husband, Dmitri, offered to give her a lift to work, but instead he drove in the opposite direction, towards the forest. He parked the car, dragged her from her seat, took an axe from the boot and chopped off both her hands.

Then he dumped her in the emergency department of their local hospital in Serpukhov, south of Moscow, before driving to the police station and confessing to his crime.

The couple had met at school and began dating after college. Initially they were happy, though he flared up easily over trivial things - and swore he would kill her if she was ever unfaithful to him.

An Easter photograph of Margarita, Dmitri and their two children

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