Bend the girl

Marriages concluded before the eighteen years are normal. Such a statement was made by the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Pavel Astakhov on the air of the Russian News Service. The lower age limit of the marriage is under the jurisdiction of the regional authorities, he emphasized.

Astakhov said that the wedding age in Chechnya has been established for 17 years, in Bashkiria - 14 years, in the Moscow region - 16 years, and in a number of regions there is no lower limit.

Meanwhile, article 13 of the Family Code of Russia establishes a marriage age of 18 years. The right to allow those who have reached the sixteenth anniversary, if there are good reasons to marry, local governments possess. The regions can establish "the procedure and conditions in the presence of which marriage in the form of an exception, taking into account special circumstances, may be allowed before the age of sixteen years."

According to Astakhov , emancipation and puberty occurred in the Caucasus before, "and in some regions 27-year-old women look at 50. He urged not to be fernses and not interfere in the personal affairs of citizens.

Due to the scandal with the minor bride chief of the Chechen District Department of Internal Affairs Astakhov, he transferred the planned visit to Chechnya from July to June. He intends to meet with the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The children's Ombudsman noted that he does not approve of early marriages.

On Thursday, Kadyrov also spoke out in support of the marriage of a 17-year-old resident of the Nozha-Yurt district of Chechnya Heda Goylabieva, who the head of the local regional police department, 57-year-old Zavud Guchigov, wants to take as a second wife. The head of Chechnya gave examples of famous couples with a big age difference, including Maxim Galkin and Alla Pugacheva. He stated that Goylabieva and her parents are outraged by "interference in personal life," and publications in the media "ordered some gentlemen liberals."

On Monday, the Astakhov press service said that the children's Ombudsman did not intend to defend Goylabiev . “They are not forcibly defended by us,” the press service said. They explained that Astakhov did not receive appeals from either Goylabieva herself, or from her relatives or legal representatives.

In late April - early May, the articles of the journalist Elena Milashina about the planned marriage of Guchigova at Goylabieva were published in Novaya Gazeta. It was argued that the wedding was scheduled for May 10 and that earlier this marriage approved Kadyrov.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva announced a violation of Russian laws, recalling that both two -wire and marriage with a minor are prohibited in Russia. The head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, for his part, emphasized that the prosecutor's office should check information about the scandalous wedding.

The press secretary of Kadyrov Alvi Karimov denied the information of Milashina, saying that "there was no wedding between this girl and this person in the Chechen Republic."

Meanwhile, Goylabieva herself in an interview with Lifenews, published on Tuesday, said that the wedding would take place "within a month."

On Thursday, Milashina, who arrived on a business trip to Chechnya and moving around the region, accompanied by human rights activists of the consolidated mobile group, advised to carefully monitor their safety . The recommendation came from police officers from Siberia, protecting the post at the entrance to the Nozhai-Yurt district of the republic. The security forces explained that their Chechen colleagues show great attention to the journalist. Malashina, trying to meet with Goylabieva, noticed surveillance of her car.