MOSCOW — He beat her. He kidnapped her. He threatened to destroy her.
But it was Russia, where domestic physical violence is both endemic and commonly ignored. Each and every time Valeriya Volodina decided to go to law enforcement for defense against her ex-boyfriend, she got nowhere. “Not as soon as did they start an unlawful instance against him — they’d not really acknowledge there was clearly a instance, ” she claims. (more…)