These women were to be born and live in Moscow. They are the children of Muscovites who were repressed in the 30s and 40s of the last century. There are not many of them, only about 1,500 left for the whole country. All their lives, the “children of the GULAG” have been living in exile,...
Female circumcision is the name given to female genital mutilation. Female circumcision is practiced, including in the North Caucasus. There is no age limit; both an adult woman and a baby can trim the clitoris and labia. Most often girls 5-12 years old are circumcised. The authors spoke with women...
The Volochanka village is located in the middle of the Taimyr Peninsula. Half of its inhabitants are Dolgans, a Turkic people related to the Yakuts. The other half are the Nganasans, another indigenous people of the North. About a hundred people speak Nganasan all over the world, their traditional...
