Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”

Russia’s fight against the West and its values has taken aim this week at an “ideology” that the Kremlin and its allies say threatens the country’s very foundations: people not wanting to have children.

Lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday.

It is the latest effort by authorities to combat the demographic strain of falling birth rates, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin says could threaten the country’s long-term outlook. In July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Russia’s declining birth rate “catastrophic for the future of the nation.”

  • a Kendrick fan@lemmy.ml
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    this is why .world is full of mostly braindead folks who’ve never had to think for themselves, only what their master propagandists feed them

    to be fair, i didn’t have to respond, i did to bust your cocky egos. in what world do supporters of the American Empire think they’re superiors to fanboys of the Russian state? isn’t the repeal of Roe v wade even worse than whatever this Duma member is threatening?

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      I get why, from your interactions with .ml peers, you would immediately jump to the conclusion that any opposition to any country means that person is a turbofan of all its adversaries. That’s actually a big part of what I am mocking here. Thank you for confirming it is so ingrained that you cannot conceive other people aren’t like that.

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      You actually didn’t respond really. At best you barfed a whatabautism and then assumed everybody is American.

      Feel free to give a real answer if Duma allows you to.

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      to be fair, i didn’t have to respond, i did to bust your cocky egos

      Lmfao do you actually think you sound like the cool vanguard of the people here?