A new survey says that “fewer than one percent” of Russians believe women should be restricted to the role of wife and mother while “more than 90 percent” believe women should be able to serve at any level of economic and political life, a finding that suggests Russia’s “silent majority” doesn’t share Putin’s much-ballyhooed “traditional values.”

That is the judgment of Anatoly Nesmiyan who blogs under the screen........

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