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Irina was beaten by her ex-husband in Moscow.
When she told about it on Facebook, she was brought to justice and sentenced on Friday to a fine of 10,000 rubles.
– Victims of violence have no right to speak about it in public, says Russian equality activist Aljona Popova.
On October 20, 2019, Irina Zhivova recounted on her Facebook page in images and text how her ex-husband Yevgeny Zhivov broke into the homes of Irina and her two daughters in the Russian capital. She pushed and shook Irina to make bruises, writes the Meduza newspaper.
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Irina Zhivova after her husband’s assault on October 20, 2019.
It does not appear in Medusa’s article about the ex-husband being fined for the beating of Irina, but five days after it was posted on Facebook, the Alpha-Kapital company announced that Yevgeny was no longer vice president.
“Alpha-Kapital honors the value of the family and considers violence within the family unacceptable,” the company wrote in a press release, but did not specify whether Zhivov had voluntarily resigned or been fired.
The ex-husband himself affirmed in an interview with the Baza site that he was innocent, and that he had gone to Irina’s apartment to visit the children, who he allegedly hid for four months.
On Friday, the Nikulinsky court in Moscow sentenced Irina Zhivova to a fine of 10,300 rubles, about 1,200 crowns, because her post on Facebook had violated the “honor, dignity and professional reputation” of her ex-husband.
Russian equality activist Aljona Popova was very upset after the verdict.
– This is the logic in Russia. Abusing someone costs 5,000 rubles. When the victim counts it, it costs 10,000 rubles, Popova wrote on his Facebook page.
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Irina Zjivova.
Since 2017, domestic abuse has been partially decriminalized in Russia. The change in the Penal Code means that violence against children and women that causes bruising or bloodshed but without broken bones gives a maximum of 15 days in prison or a fine of between 5000 and 30,000 rubles if the violence occurs at most one Once a year.
Domestic abuse is no longer considered a crime, but an administrative offense. Previously, the maximum penalty for this type of assault was two years in prison, according to The Guardian.
Aljona Popova has launched a campaign in support of Irina Zjivova with the hashtag # говоритьНЕЛЬЗЯБИТЬ (# prataslåinte).
Domestic violence is often considered a private family matter in Russia, according to a 2018 report released by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch.
The police and courts often blame women. An example is described in the report, where a man tried to strangle his wife and attacked her with a knife. When reporting the incident, the police said:
– Why did you make things worse by causing it? He was drunk, you should have let him sleep drunk.
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