We have gathered hateful and disrespectful comments about #women and #LGBT+ persons from #Russian political elites to demonstrate that it is very much a state policy and not just singular cases.
The systemic nature of such policies leads to situations when Russian police claims that “up to 40% of all violent crimes are committed within families”. And yet domestic violence has been decriminalized and reduced to misdemeanor and many others.
For more information on Kremlin’s anti-gender politics please check out our analytics Mapping Kremlin’s Anti-Gender Politics and Their Implications.
