Abstract
The study explores the rhetorical strategies and premises employed by opponents of the enactment of the draft bill “On domestic violence prevention in Russian Federation” in the course of the wide public discussion about the bill during 2019. Three texts are analyzed: an open letter to the president of Russia, a statement of The Patriarchal Commission on Family, Maternal, and Child Welfare (Russian Orthodox Church), and an official answer by The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation to an inquiry made by European Court of Human Rights concerning domestic violence in the country. Common themes and rhetorical figures are emphasized, as well as convictions supposedly dictating their usage. Resemblance found between the three examples of the rhetoric allows for a hypothesis about such rhetoric being used as a means of national consolidation around a common political narrative. Moreover, an attempt is made to connect the rhetoric of the opponents of the bill to a wider international context as an instance of global “anti-gender turn” in the Russian reality.
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