Stacy Dooley: Russia’s War on Women

Stacey Dooley travels to Russia to investigate the claim that each year thousands of Russian women are murdered by their partners.
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Stacey Dooley travels to Russia to investigate the claim that each year thousands of Russian women are murdered by their partners.

Stacey Dooley travels to Russia to investigate the claim that each year thousands of Russian women are murdered by their partners.

But far from discovering that the government is cracking down on the issue, she learns that certain forms of domestic violence were decriminalised in February 2017.