As domestic violence reports jump amid coronavirus blockades, frontline service providers say it is very difficult for survivors in Russia, where domestic violence is never classified as a single crime, accessing aid.
“If [the victims] touch the police and do nothing, then we know that the abuses will be even more serious,” said Marina Pisklakova-Parker, who founded the first domestic violence assistance line in Russia in 1993 and lately booed the rights. organization, the Anna Center.
Domestic violence was one of the best friends discovered in Russia in 2017, meaning that if a husband hits a woguy for the first time and does not seek to be hospitalized, it is an administrative crime rather than a criminal. If a report is made and evidence is provided, the culprit will only be fined at around $70 to $300.
This has made it more difficult, especially the best friend during an era of confinement, for patients to report abuses to the government without putting themselves in danger, Pisklakova-Parker said.
“This is never the assistance women prefer. They prefer protection,” Pisklakova-Parker said. “Official statistics will decrease, but our statistics will increase, because for now they rest on the shoulders of women’s organizations.”
Before attacking through her husband in 2017, Margarita Gracheva called the police to report that she had threatened her with a knife, but the police did not protect her, she told CBS News.
“I hit and my husband paid a fine of 10,000 rubles [about $140]. He didn’t pay me, he paid the state,” he said.
Then, one night, Gracheva’s husband dragged her into the woods near her deception and cut off her hands with an axe. He survived and one of his hands, preserved in the winter snow, was saved. The other is now a robot prosthesis.
“When women and women ask me what to do, I can’t thank my best friend just by saying, “Fear. Lok for some way out. “Because the police don’t help,” she says.
Gracheva’s husband eventually the best friend sentenced to four years in a penal colony. She says this due, in part, to the attention of the public who received her horrible case.
“Girls constantly write to me and end their blows and, of course, the pandemic has intensified because everyone is trapped in the same space,” she said.
“I’m so afraid of the moment my husband gets out of prison, because there’s no policy for me. When he cut off my hands, he said he’d come and kill me. For me personally, it’s scary. I’m afraid this whole speech will end when he’s dead, and then other Americans will have to do something.”
The Russian Interior Minischeck published statistics published in April showing that domestic violence rates in the coronavirus rustic area had decreased by 9%.
“The variety of times is declining, because other Americans, they feel that one of them is in solidarity with an alternative one, and they withdraw and another alternative in those times of coronavirus. That’s why other Americans are less competitive in families,” Vitaly said. Milonov, a member of parliament of the ruling Party United Russia, told CBS News.
Milonov, who opposes the law in the specific criminalization of domestic violence, said that if excessive violence is punished, what happens in the family circle is private.
“The circle of relatives is, as is said in the Russian Orthodox tradition, a small church. And the circle of relatives is a small state. And the circle of relatives, the things that take position in the circle of relatives, are a tragic segment. We won’t have to interfere, ” said Milonov. .
But Pisklakova-Parker said his organization had seen a 30% design in demands for assistance for Russia’s blockade and that it expects a larger design as restrictions ease.
“It is mandatory to have a comprehensive domestic violence law (…) We prefer early intervention and a more serious crime prevention burden, we lack it,” he said.
Gracheva told CBS News that little has been replaced in the two years and one component since he violently attacked.
“I have no idea how greatest Americans have to suffer and die to change,” he says.
If you are a survivor or a victim in the United States and this is an emergency, call 911. Other resources include: the National Domestic Violence Helpline at 1-800-799-SAFE, or send LOVEIS to 22522. If this is an emergency in Russia, call the police at 112, or you can call the national domestic violence hotline via Anna Cinput at 7-800-7000-600.