Russia is seeking a crackdown on material that supposedly discourages having children. Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged couples to have children as the country’s birth rate drops.
A group of Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation that would prohibit child-free “propaganda.”
“It is important to protect people, primarily the younger generation, from having the ideology of childlessness imposed on them on the internet, in the media, in movies, and in advertising,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of Russia’s lower house of parliament, or Duma, said.
Pst Putin… maybe it’d help if people didn’t think you were going to send their husbands and children off to die in pointless wars.
If only he did something to pursue that in 24+ years he held the office… He only cares now because indebted newlyweds with kids are a target demographic for service. And it doesn’t work that well either.