A yearlong fight to enforce more legal protection for victims of domestic abuse took a step back this week in Moscow. The State Duma, Russia's parliament, voted to roll back a law that made domestic abuse a criminal offence. 'I don't know how we can protect the victims of domestic violence.' Under pressure from conservative parenting groups and the Russian Orthodox Church, the deputies voted this week to strike domestic violence from the criminal code, as well. But Russia would have no law specifically targeting domestic violence.

Source: CBC News January 27, 2017 23:41 UTC