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.”

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.”

  • Richie Rich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Russia is like, “Sons! We need sons for the fatherland so that they can fight in the field against Ukraine!” How inhuman can Russia be?

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      I find it disturbing that they apparently expect that their 3 day operation will be ongoing two decades from now.

      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        So I just did a quick analysis of war lengths after and including WWII, and given that this isn’t my area of expertise, but they tend to run around 30 years on average. You either get out quickly or you’re there for generations. Russia is losing troops at a rate that worries me and I’m on Ukraine’s side of the war.