The End of Violence: How Women Fight Injustice

All past year we have been talking to women who found themselves in difficult situations - from Margarita Gracheva, who was attacked by her own husband, to Kira Yarmysh, who spent 25 days in a special detention center. The heroines told us how they are fighting injustice in many different areas - we collected a few stories for you that impressed us especially.

"I defended myself as best I could": I am being tried for self-defense

Nineteen-year-old Daria Ageny accompanied the children on a trip to a summer camp in Tuapse. She says that on the very first evening in the city, a local resident attacked her and tried to rape her - she beat her off with a knife to sharpen pencils. A month after Daria returned to Moscow, she was detained "for causing grievous harm to a man's health"

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"The prosthesis is cool, but it is not a hand": Margarita Gracheva about life after an attack

Last year, Dmitry Grachev took his wife Margarita to the forest near the town of Serpukhov. The man tortured the girl for an hour and a half, cut off her hands, and then took her to the hospital. The girl managed to restore one hand, and the second one replaced the prosthesis. We met with Margarita in Petersburg

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"They want to forget about it": I make a tattoo for victims of domestic violence

Tattoo master from Ufa Zhenya Zakhar makes free tattoos for women who have experienced domestic violence. For many of her clients, this becomes a kind of therapy and an act of overcoming traumatic experiences.

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"I managed to escape": They tried to rape me in a taxi

Anna Brain said that the Uber driver tried to rape her, but the girl managed to escape. We talked with Anna about what happened and what she is going to do next

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"Disgust disappears, but there is no shame": Kira Yarmysh about 25 days in the women's chamber "

At the end of May, Kira Yarmysh, press secretary for Alexei Navalny, was detained, accusing him of organizing the rally “He’s not the king for us” on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, and sent to a special detention center for 25 days. Having served time, Kira told us about the administrative arrest, hygiene and leisure in the women's cell.

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“In prison you will always be referred to“ you ”": Svetlana Bakhmina about life in the women's colony

Svetlana Bakhmina, a former Yukos lawyer and a defendant in a lawsuit against an oil company, ended up in Mordovia colony No. 14 in 2004 and spent there five years. After her release, she returned to legal practice and established the “Extend a Hand” foundation for women prisoners.

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Activist Maggie Barankits: I saved children from genocide in Burundi

In the mid-nineties in Rwanda and Burundi at least 800 thousand people became victims of mass killings. One of the notable heroines of that time in Burundi was Maggie Barankits - she managed to save twenty-five children from a mass slaughter, and later helped thirty thousand people survive, get medical help and find work thanks to the project "House of Shalom"

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"No one cares": Olga Romanova about female colonies and prisoners

We talked with the founder of the Russia Sitting Foundation about women's colonies, how the lives of mothers and children separated by the zone are made, and what it is like to devote ten years to studying the terrible world, which most compatriots still don't know almost nothing

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"Children-404": How I created a support group for LGBT teens

The community "Children-404" was one of the first support groups for LGBT teenagers who appeared on the Russian-language Internet. We asked her creator Elena Klimova to tell her what it is like to do a humanitarian project under conditions of constant pressure.

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Safe Space: Why I made a YouTube channel about feminism

Anya Sakharova tells how it is to make a vlog that any discrimination is bad, in a situation where sexist and homophobic statements are gaining popularity

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"My patience has come to an end": How I stopped bulling in my son's class

The problem of bullying in schools is still acute - but this does not mean that it cannot be dealt with. Natalia Tsymbalenko, a Moscow government employee, tells how she managed to stop the harassment at the school where her son is studying

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"Try to shout": Tatiana Felgengauer about life after an attack

Last year, an unknown man broke into the Echo of Moscow editorial office and attacked journalist Tatyana Felgengauer - he struck her twice with a knife in the throat. At our request, the journalist told about the attack and addiction to injury.

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