84 Percent of Russian Men who Kill Their Wives were Drunk at the Time, Court Data Show

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Nov. 22 – Even though the Russian government decriminalized family violence in 2017, Russian courts are still called upon to adjudicate the most serious cases, including murder, although in most cases, the courts hand down sentences at the lower end of the range established by law, according to a study by the Vyorstka news portal.  
    But perhaps most striking was its finding that in the first half of 2024, 84 percent of Russian men convicted of killing their wives were drunk at the time of the murders, according to Russian court data (verstka.media/kalendar-domashnego-nasiliya and sibreal.org/a/bolshinstvo-ubiystv-zhenschin-v-rossii-sovershayut-pyanye-muzhchiny/33210631.html).
    In many countries, alcohol use lies behind murders and especially those within families; but the Russian figure is especially high – and the role of alcohol in family violence there is likely even higher if one considers all the acts of violence by Russian men against Russian women.