Legislative initiative|Russian leader Vladimir Putin has also encouraged women to reproduce, citing patriotic reasons.
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The Russian Duma is preparing a law to ban “infertility propaganda”.
Spreading “propaganda” should be fined between 3,800 and 47,500 euros.
Russia’s birth rate is the lowest since 1999 and the death rate is on the rise.
Infertility propaganda is, according to Russian legislators, content that “deliberately encourages refusal to carry children”.
In Russia, you can soon be fined thousands of euros for spreading such a thing, reports the news agency Reuters and American NBC.
The Russian Duma is preparing a new law, the purpose of which is to ban “infertility propaganda”. Speaker of the Duma Vyacheslav Volodin content found on the internet, advertisements and media that promotes the “ideology of childlessness” would be made illegal.
However, it is not completely clear how the law would be applied in practice.
Legislative initiative in the background is the confrontation fueled by Russia between the corrupt West and Russia that cherishes traditional values.
Volodin says that the “child-free movement” lowers the value of the family institution. According to him, the state authorities are worried that women do not want children because of the content about voluntary childlessness.
“A happy and big family is the basis of a strong state,” Volodin commented, according to Reuters.
According to the bill presented to the Duma on Wednesday, spreading “infertility propaganda” could in the future have to pay a heavy price.
An individual could be sentenced to a fine of 400,000 rubles, or about 3,800 euros. The fine would be 7,600 euros for state authorities and 47,500 euros for companies.
Fresh ones returns say that the birth rate in Russia is the lowest since 1999. At the same time, the death rate is on the rise.
Even the leader of Russia Vladimir Putin has taken a stand on the situation. According to Reuters, he has urged women to have at least three children to secure Russia’s future.
“The purpose of a woman is to reproduce – this is a wonderful, natural gift,” Putin commented in March, according to NBC.
In his July in speech Putin, on the other hand, complains about how hard the women of the previous generations were to give birth.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, maybe more. We should preserve and restore these wonderful traditions.”
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