I never thought I’d one day be enthusiastically promoting Gannushkina’s article. A must-read. About the situation of women in Chechnya. This is one of the main things people should remember before singing songs about how "Chechens are just like us," "Russians can live in peace with Chechens," or "multiculturalism enriches the country." I don’t need this kind of multiculturalism. People who claim that women have no right to go out with their heads uncovered or wear shorts belong in cages. Or up in trees, outside the Russian Federation. If this is supposedly about the "mentality of the people," then that’s the people’s problem. Either they change that mentality, or to hell with it—we don’t need people like that. The article extensively quotes officials from the Chechen Republic: "Unfortunately, we have women here who have begun to forget the code of conduct for mountain women (a traditional Caucasian ideal of female behavior)." — Nurdy Nukhazhiev, Human Rights Commissioner (!!!) in Chechnya. "...Today I am very troubled by the way our girls dress. Our brides sometimes appear before their mothers-in-law and the groom’s relatives, excuse me, almost naked and with their heads uncovered. They go out into the streets in miniskirts with their hair loose. The mentality of our people does not allow this." — Ramzan Kadyrov. "I have the right to criticize my wife. My wife does not. In our society, a wife is a housewife. A woman must know her place. ...A woman must give us love. ...A woman should be property. And a man is the owner. In our custom, if a woman behaves improperly, her husband, father, and brother are held responsible. According to our custom, if she sleeps around, her relatives kill her. …It happens: a brother kills his sister, a husband kills his wife." — Ramzan Kadyrov