Why are Russian women posting 'scrunched-up selfies'?

#wrinkledwomen: Why are Russian women posting 'scrunched-up selfies'?
The Independent
SATURDAY 23 MAY 2015

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Women have been posting angry "wrinkled" selfies on Instagram

Russian women have take to social media to post their own "wrinkled selfies" in protest against comments made by a top children’s rights official who defended child marriage in Chechnya.

Pavel Astakhov provoked fury when he defended the marriage of teenage girls to older men by saying it was necessary because women were wrinkled by the time they were 27.

In an interview with a Moscow-based radio station, Russian News Service, said in “exceptional services” the law regulating the age at which people can get married, which is officially 18 in Russia, could be changed by regional authorities.

He then added: "Let's not be hypocrites. There are places where women are already shriveled at age 27, and by our standards they look like they're 50. And, in general, the [Russian] Constitution forbids interference in citizens' personal lives.”