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"He beats me, because he loves me". This is a stigmatized belief deeply rooted in the Russian mentality. This approach towards gender role in the old Russsia was based on a certain philosophy called Domostroy-a social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have authority over women and children. In modern Russian, the term Domostroy has a pejorative meaning. It is used to refer to a traditionalist way of life associated with patriarchal tyranny, as exemplified by the following quotations: A wife which is good, laborious, and silent is a crown to her husband. Don't pity a youngling while beating her: if you punish her with a rod, she will not die, but become healthier. It is also used to refer to a family, community, or society based on this system or governed by men. "This no longer holds true in post-modern Russia after a long way it has undergone from the Communist time. The Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 is known for its "major achievement" bringing about gender parity and assigning the woman an equally significant societal role,"-one may continue. One can not agree more that the gender parity in terms of performing hard labor, hard physical chores, hazardous for women's health is in place . But this is the only area where the "parity" exists. Although women in Russia and in all the post Soviet territory are known to be proud of carrying out man like labor their liberation has not gone any further. The man's attitude towards a woman and her place and role in the contemporary society in all the CIS countries does not seem to have shifted from the Domostroy period back in the 15th century when a woman was viewed upon as a man's possession and a voiceless slave.

Domestic Violence until recently has never been regarded as an issue whatsoever. Even with the onset of communism, post communism and post modernism all the official institutions and bodies such as law enforcement, local and federal governments, justices and even Supreme Court, including the 4th body of the state power the mass media didn't seem to care much about what was going on in the people's families, in their homes in other words- behind the curtain of privacy, Sounds very democratic at first glance." It's a private matter" and is not to be of any concern for the police officers and first responders who arrived at the crime scenes as soon as they found out it had been a DV (domestic Violence) related case.
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