In Russia, pickets are held against the law on family violence

In Moscow and a number of other cities of Russia on Saturday, shares are held against the adoption of a bill on the prevention of family violence. They are organized by Orthodox and conservative activists from the "Coordinating Council in defense of public morality, culture and traditional family values." They believe that the adoption of a law designed to fight violence in families destroys the institution of the family.

In Novosibirsk, according to Siberia . Realities, more than 40 people entered the akitsu protest. The picketers held in their hands posters with the slogans "My house is my fortress", "Family - a small church", "for the EU bill allocated 500 thousand euros."

“If the law enters into force, what fool wants to marry such conditions,” Siberia said to the correspondent. Realities are one of the organizers of the picket, Ivan Kvasnitsky. “Everything happens in the family, not without sin. But people can ask for forgiveness. But there is no way to ask for forgiveness,” says Kvasnitsky.

According to the participants in the action, the law promotes radical feminist organizations in Russia with the money of the European Union. As an alternative, Orthodox activists propose to recreate the system of Soviet treatment and labor dispensaries, where he is forcibly isolate the suffering from drug addiction and alcoholism.

Earlier in Novosibirsk and other cities, shares were held for the speedy adoption of the law on the prevention of family violence. Supporters of the bill emphasize that such laws apply in 140 countries of the world. Russia, along with Afghanistan and a number of African states, according to the World Bank, is one of the 18 countries whose laws are the worst of all to women from violence in the family. In particular, recently the beatings in the family were decriminalized in Russia.

• To return to the discussion of the bill on family-household violence forced a number of high-profile affairs. One of the most resonant tragedies associated with the violence in the family occurred in July 2018, when the sisters of Krestin, Maria and Angelina Khachaturian killed their father Mikhail Khachaturian. They themselves called the police and pleaded guilty. The girl’s investigators were told that the father beat and raped them for many years.
• On October 21, 2019 in the State Duma, hearings were held on the issues of refinement of the Family Violence Law. Some deputies expect that with the active work of all relevant committees and with the help of activists it will be able to accept it before the end of 2019.