“It turned out that the medical certificate had disappeared. I expect his father bribed someone.”


Name:
Elena
Age: 24

“We have to share a home. I’ve nowhere to go.”


Name:
Svetlana
Age: 38

“When I started working I was naive, and my aim was to have families reunited.”


Who:
Elena Zolotilova and Tatiana Pavlova
What: Fighting to open the city’s first women’s shelter.