sentences:  According to figures reported by the western media in 2013, women's deaths due to domestic violence had not been markedly diminished in a decade.BBC reported information from a Russian interior ministry that 600,000 women were physically or verbally abused at home and 14,000 of them died that year from injuries inflicted by their partner.Reuters also reported that an estimated 10,000 to 14,000 women die at the hands of their partner or close relative every year.