One doesn’t generally have to look very far to find an example of the promotion of machismo in Russian society, or the fact that violence against women remains a worrying trend (Ria-Novosti has just reported that a third of Russian women endure domestic violence for fear of losing their husbands).  Nonetheless, the Guardian’s Miriam Elder has found a particularly unsavory example of misogyny in Russia Today’s exculpation of the antics of British footballer Ched Evans who has been convicted of rape, or as the RT columnist puts it, simply being a man.