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Domestic violence costs Estonian society an estimated €273 million a year, and this is actually a rather conservative estimate. According to “The Economic Cost of Intimate Partner Violence in Estonia”, recent short report by the Foresight Centre, the biggest costs are associated with loss of health and economic damage.

A survey commissioned by the Foresight Centre revealed that people trust the police and other state institutions much less when it comes to intimate partner violence than in other situations. At the same time, those who have been directly or recently exposed to violence trust women’s support centres and Victim Support (Ohvriabi) highly.