“Blessed be the woman whose engagement goes well, whose dowry is not too high, and who has children quickly.” That is not a message from the Afghan Taliban, but from the Russian authorities in occupied Ukraine. Moscow increasingly sees women’s rights as a Western anomaly. And so a strange mix of piety and machismo ensures that even the head of state mocks rape and domestic violence is no longer punished as long as no bones are broken.
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ANALYSIS. Russia is now waging war against everything Western. Also women’s rights
