--- description: Russian women are posting selfies with wrinkled faces in protest of an official defending a 17-year-old girl's arranged marriage. title: Hundreds of Russian Women Are Posting Selfies With Wrinkled Faces image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc85423b4ad94ec5f/6988518106f2c108b933a533/nazhud-guchigov-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [russia](/tag/russia/) ## russia Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hundreds of Russian Women Are Posting Selfies With Wrinkled Faces  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2015 4:19 PM CUT  Bride, Chechen Kheda Goilabiyeva, and fiancé, Chechen police officer Nazhud Guchigov, second right, stand in a wedding registry office in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia, on May 16, 2015. Bride, Chechen Kheda Goilabiyeva, and fiancé, Chechen police officer Nazhud Guchigov, second right, stand in a wedding registry office in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia, on May 16, 2015.AP  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 24, 2015 4:19 PM CUT Hundreds of Russian women are posting selfies with wrinkled faces in protest of an official who defended a 17-year-old girl’s arranged marriage to a 47-year-old man. The Instagram campaign began Saturday after Russia’s children’s rights minister Pavel Astakhov defended the marriage, saying “there are places where women have wrinkles at age 27 and they look 50 by our standards,” BBC reports. “Let’s not be prudish,” Astakhov said. “Emancipation and sexual maturity happen earlier in the Caucasus.” The bride, Kheda Goilabiyeva, and her fiancé, police officer Nazhud Guchigov, were married in Chechnya two weeks ago. The wedding drew controversy because the minimum age for marriage under Russian law is 18, though in Chechnya the age is 16\. The bride has said she married Guchigov willfully. “This hashtag is about the oppression of women. Women’s rights are violated in Russia, especially in Chechnya,” one female activist told BBC. \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-32822662 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/"},"headline":"Hundreds of Russian Women Are Posting Selfies With Wrinkled Faces","datePublished":"2015-05-24T16:19:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:35:43.217Z","description":"In protest of an official's remarks defending a 17-year-old girl's arranged marriage","url":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/","keywords":["russia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc85423b4ad94ec5f/6988518106f2c108b933a533/nazhud-guchigov-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc85423b4ad94ec5f/6988518106f2c108b933a533/nazhud-guchigov-wedding.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bride, Chechen Kheda Goilabiyeva, and fiancé, Chechen police officer Nazhud Guchigov, second right, stand in a wedding registry office in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia","caption":"Bride, Chechen Kheda Goilabiyeva, and fiancé, Chechen police officer Nazhud Guchigov, second right, stand in a wedding registry office in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/russia/","name":"russia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/","name":"Hundreds of Russian Women Are Posting Selfies With Wrinkled Faces"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Dove: Choose Beautiful","description":"Dove: Choose Beautiful","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/y93eZZTg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-04-07T13:56:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/y93eZZTg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/","duration":"PT3M40S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3895290/russia-wrinkled-faces/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```