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     “A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.”

Proverbs 28:17

     “Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.”

Jeremiah 22:3

     “They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein. 

     And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.”

Ezekiel 12:20

Perilous Times

Domestic violence kills one Russian woman an hour: report

December 14, 2010 - 7:04AM
The Telegraph UK

A woman dies from domestic violence every 63 minutes in Russia, with more than 650,000 women beaten by their husbands and other relatives each year, a non-governmental organization reported Monday.

The violence "results in the death of 14,000 women each year" in Russia, the ANNA women's support group said in a report.

"In other words, this translates into another woman being killed by her husband once every 63 minutes," the organization's president Marina Pisklakova told AFP. Advertisement: Story continues below-

She said the rate had remained relatively stable since 1995, although the interior ministry only began issuing official domestic violence figures in 2008.

For comparison, a woman is killed in a British domestic violence case once every three days, according to the Refuge women's centre.

Pisklakova said the violence in Russia could be partially explained by a patriarchal society "in which women are accustomed to violence, which they treat as simple marital conflict."

Though aware of the problem, Russian authorities have done little to help, Pisklakova said.

"There is one 35-bed (female) shelter in a Russian capital of 10 million inhabitants," she said.