Outpouring of support in Russia for sisters who killed abusive father

Moscow — One summer night in 2018, sisters Krestina, Angelina and Maria Khachaturyan went into the room where their 57-year-old father Mikhail was sleeping and attacked him with pepper spray, a knife and a hammer.

“I feel solidarity with the sisters,” said Anna Sinyatkina, a translator who was in a Moscow nightclub last week when about 200 people, mostly young women, gathered for a poetry evening in support of the sisters. The case has emerged at a time when many Russians believe protections for women abused in the home are being weakened.

The sisters’ lawyer, Alexei Parshin, said they were not demanding anonymity as victims of sexual abuse because the allegations about abuse were already in the public domain. “The situation in which the girls found themselves living with a father for a rapist is familiar and scary,” Alyona Popova, a lawyer and organiser of the petition told Reuters. “Many people, not only women, but also men in the Russian Federation realise that this is not an isolated case.”

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