N. KRYLOVA, Doctor of Historical Sciences "At home, they (former students of Soviet universities, married to Russian women. - N. K.), nevertheless, observed the Muslim traditions of attitude towards women... Although, on the one hand, it seems that a woman has the right to vote, but in the family she usually has her own half in the house, and she does not have the right to interfere in any decisions. The mother actually reigns there. They are completely subordinate to the husband's mother, that is, their mother-in-law. And they (the Russians - N. K.) were treated quite harshly. And when they had some desires, for example, to go somewhere ... to the city-after all, Cairo is a big city, there is a lot of entertainment there - there was a very negative reaction from my husband's family. They were told: "You forget everything that was known in Russia, you are now married women. Just say thank you that we don't encourage you to cover your face." In Egypt, the "Halabiization" of the female population has increased in recent years. And if in 1991 about 60% of female students of higher educational institutions wore European clothes and about 40% - traditional Arabic, their hair was covered (but this is always mandatory), now ...50-50 and maybe even more than 50% of female students wear traditional Arabic clothing. That is, at the domestic level, there is such a re-traditionalization." (From the author's interview with the deputy head of the Department. Director of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences I. Abramova) According to the Consular Service Department. (BCS) The majority of women who intermarry with citizens of African countries, citizens of the former USSR or the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, are Russian. As for the zones of their settlement on the African continent as a whole, according to statistics of the same Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, now Russian women live in 52 African countries; almost 6 ... Читать далее