Svetlana Anokhina — ‘The shame of Daghestan’

Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, activist, and outspoken advocate for women’s rights from Daghestan, recently fled the Russian republic after being threatened with death. Labelled ‘the shame of Daghestan’ by her critics, Anokhina continues to confound them with her work from afar. In July 2020 Svetlana Anokhina a women’s rights activist and journalist based in Daghestan, received a telephone death threat as part of a wider ‘sorting out the feminists’ campaign taking place in the republic. This