Summary

Russian lawmakers passed a controversial bill banning “child-free propaganda” to reverse a demographic slump and promote traditional family values.

The bill targets materials that promote a conscious rejection of having children and includes fines and deportation provisions.

It comes alongside existing bans on LGBTQ+ relationships and gender reassignment.

  • @breadsmasher
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    599 days ago

    Took me a moment to understand this headline wasnt banning “propaganda that doesn’t include children”

    • @UsernameHere
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      149 days ago

      China and Russia are pushing their people to have more kids and increase their numbers while amplifying the sentiment that people from enemy nations shouldn’t have kids.

      • Riskable
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        209 days ago

        Because nothing says, “I should have children” than living under an overbearing autocratic government trying to control your life!

    • @[email protected]
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      49 days ago

      Children are future workers, soldiers and parents.

      These countries see that birth rates are dropping in the west and are looking to become dominant in numbers.

      • @[email protected]
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        78 days ago

        I’m pretty sure their concern is their own birth rate dropping, actually. Have you seen the demographics graph for Russia? They’re facing a complete collapse of their working-age population in a decade or two

  • @fluxion
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    219 days ago

    Russia giving JD Vance some great new policy ideas

  • @solomon42069
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    9 days ago

    The only thing more pathetic and limp than this law is the men who wrote it.

  • Scott
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    79 days ago

    Lmao, not like anyone is gonna want to have kids there anyway

  • @eran_morad
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    79 days ago

    LOL. Fuck the blyats. The war will just accelerate their demographic crisis.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 days ago

      I have a feeling that they are planning to use the survivng ukranian women and children for something.

  • @Pjonathan
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    69 days ago

    Putin enacting a law that wont affect him in his life time…

    • @[email protected]
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      18 days ago

      That is not the problem. Politicians should often be forward-thinking. In the US, failure to plan more than 2 years ahead is a huge detriment to infrastructure funding. Of course, central long-term planning à la USSR that does not consider market developments is an example of how wrong the opposite extreme can go.

  • @aesthelete
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    09 days ago

    Oh thank Moses I was wondering when all the flood of people telling me to not have kids was gonna stop! /s

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    08 days ago

    CAN something like this really works? Because its not like he did anything at all to make life for familys easier.