Russians to outlaw marrying foreigners

[zarakand]

Just browsing Reuters.com and saw this story. It's highly amusing, and I'm sure the bill won't pass.


MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians who marry foreigners could be exiled and stripped of their citizenship under a bill being drafted by a group of members of parliament, a deputy said Sunday.

One of the bill's authors, Duma deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich, a member of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party, admitted parliament was unlikely to approve the measures but insisted they were necessary. "Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world, are going abroad. By doing this, they are wasting the most valuable thing we have -- the gene pool of our nation," Kuryanovich told Ekho Moskvy radio.

But while condemning women for going abroad, he also said he did not want people bringing foreign spouses to Russia either.

Newly-weds would be forced to go and live in the country where their spouses were from, Kuryanovich said, to protect Russia from "an invasion of alien elements."

"Adapting to life in Russia ... foreigners impose their own rules, which are unacceptable to us," he said.

Since the fall of Communism, the numbers of Russians marrying foreigners has increased significantly and a poll cited in respected magazine Ogonyok last year said one in three 17 to 25-year-old girls wanted to marry a foreigner and live abroad.

The LDPR party's leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is known as a maverick who enjoys stirring up controversy and has traded punches with fellow deputies during parliamentary sittings.

[Telesque]

"Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world, are going abroad. By doing this, they are wasting the most valuable thing we have -- the gene pool of our nation,"

Maybe this should've been posted in the 'Funny Farm'.

Granted, there's some over-the-top knock-out spy or something in a movie from time to time who's supposed to be Russian, but ... I don't think the Russians are known for their beauty-genes (as compared to, say, hispanic women, who are the largest ethnicity to be crowned Miss Universe- See, I'm not just being prejudice. )

Then again, I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[QuietMonkey]

oh man is this ever bad news that wonderfully skilled russian pilot i saw is soon to be off limits if this bill passes!

bizarre stuff in Moscow!

so many wonderful russian women awaiting a new home in wealthier and healtier climates. that's gotta be another great reason to travel abroad... euro girls with modelesque figures and the staunch russian upbringing hopefully makes for disciplined minds, and enough angst and adversity to be risque... my kindof date.

[vulcanman500]

he's right about one thing.....they do have a diffent gene pool. Physicaly they just appear to be different. I actually prefer the look of their bone stucture. Its unique.

[Gummiente]

I actually prefer the look of their bone stucture. Its unique.

I, uh, tend to look more at the exterior things on women.

[wb]

i have never met a more materialistic culture ....... a nation of "minnie pearls" .................wb/lt/ca

[Telesque]

Women want out of Moscow?

Why?

It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that alcohol flows like water, and it has the highest homicide rate in the world (er.. should that be 'modern' world?), would it?

[Gummiente]

i have never met a more materialistic culture ....... a nation of "minnie pearls" .................wb/lt/ca

Whom are you referring to - the Russians or the North Amercians?

[Toyuzu]

"Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world

If that's true, My wife must be Russian.

[Gummiente]

If that's true, My wife must be Russian.

Smooth!