One of Mikhail Khachaturyan's three teenage daughters stabbed him fatally in the heart in their Moscow apartment.<br />According to Newser, the man's murder has refocused attention on domestic violence and sparked a culture-war debate.<br />Khachaturyan allegedly beat, humiliated, threatened, and sexually abused his three daughters.<br />When he pepper-sprayed each of them in the face, the girls sprayed him back, beat him with a hammer, and stabbed him to death.<br />But not all Russians side with the girls, despite corroboration of domestic abuse from Khachaturyan's estranged wife.<br />Prosecutors charged all three with premeditated murder.<br />Likewise, the powerful Russian Orthodox Church are opposing the idea of beefing up Russia's limited domestic-violence laws.
