Women in North Caucasus Even More Likely to be Mistreated after Ukraine War Ends because Judicial System Sides with the Men in Their Lives Against Them, ‘Ad Rem’ Investigation Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Jan. 27 – Women in the North Caucasus routinely are mistreated, wounded and even killed when they seek to free themselves from some of the most archaic traditions of that region. But new research by Ad Rem, a lawyers’ organization that offers them defense, says their situation is likely to get much worse.

            That is because, the group says, they will not only have to deal with veterans returning from Putin’s war in Ukraine who are often traumatized but with a judicial system that has shown itself prepared to let them off with only a slap on the wrist for the most heinous crimes directed against women.

            In a 39-page study detailing the problems women in the North Caucasus now face, the Ad Rem organization says that it regretfully concludes that they will face “persecution instead of defense” when veterans from Ukraine return home (adrem.help/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Преследование-вместо-защиты-1.pdf).

            That may not be the largest problem Russia will face after the war Putin started ends, but it is one that should attract the attention of everyone concerned about human rights and be denounced as yet another way in which Moscow for all its talk about overcoming problems of this kind is in fact making them worse.

            The Ad Rem study has been reviewed by the Daptar portal which on a daily basis provides some of the most comprehensive coverage of the abuses women in the North Caucasus suffer (daptar.ru/2026/01/27/presledovanie-vmesto-zashchity-kak-na-severnom-kavkaze-gosudarstvo-rabotaet-protiv-zhertv-nasiliya/).