MOSCOW — Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out — for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor the Russia-backed separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine — but about their experiences of rape and sexual violence.
Associated Press: Women in Russia, Ukraine unite online against sex abuse
Ukraine's activist Anastasiya Melnychenko poses in Kyiv on July 12. It was yet another online discussion blaming a rape victim for provoking her attacker that pushed Ukrainian activist Anastasiya Melnychenko to launch a campaign to shatter taboos in her homeland and neighbouring Russia.
