Victims of domestic violence face uphill battle for protection in Russia

By Gabriela Baczynska MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yulia endured three years of almost daily rapes and beatings before she fled her husband with her four children, living for the next year in constant fear he would find them. "I couldn't live in my flat, even though I owned it," the Moscow hairdresser said, too scared to give her full name. "For a year I rented, but then we ran out of money," she told Reuters at Moscow's only public shelter for battered women, Nadezhda ("Hope"). …