Paul Goble
Staunton, June 17 – A new poll by the Russian Field organization is important in its own right and also for highlighting something that is even more important. Despite Kremlin hype, Russians are far less enamored by the idea of traditional Russian values that Putin promotes and the actions he takes to promote those values.
The new poll shows that 90 percent of Russians surveyed say they would support a law in Russia providing punishment for those who engage in violence within families (russianfield.com/protivnasiliya and novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/06/17/90-rossiian-podderzhalo-by-poiavlenie-zakona-o-domashnem-nasilii-russian-field-news).
Given the rising tide of violence against women and children by family members in the Russian Federation today (t.me/novaya_europe/62044 and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2026/05/feminist-anti-war-resistance-documents.html), this is a welcome sign that Russians are horrified by that trend and want to see something done about it.
But it is more than that: it is a vote against the Putin regime’s policies in this area. Until 2017, Russia had laws against violence in the home; but in that year and with the support of the Moscow Patriarchate and in the name of promoting traditional values, the Kremlin leader decriminalized such attacks.
In the years before Putin launched his expanded war against Ukraine, various commentators, activists and Duma members called for new laws against domestic violence, but these efforts failed because of opposition from the Orthodox Church and the Kremlin. Last year, the Russian government reiterated its opposition to such a law.
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