{"id":241763,"date":"2023-11-25T02:47:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=241763"},"modified":"2023-11-25T02:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:47:57","slug":"russian-lawmaker-says-free-women-prisoners-to-fix-falling-birth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/russian-lawmaker-says-free-women-prisoners-to-fix-falling-birth-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lawmaker says free women prisoners to fix falling birth rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>45,000 women prisoners in Putin&#8217;s jails should be freed temporarily to get pregnant and reverse Russia&#8217;s falling birth rate, Kremlin lawmaker says<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev suggested women take the opportunity to &#8216;atone&#8217; for wrongdoings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>He compared the proposals to male prisoners joining the fight in Ukraine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some 45,000 female inmates in squalid Russian prisons should be temporarily freed to find partners and get pregnant in a bid to reverse the falling birth rate, a Russian lawmaker has said.<\/p>\n<p>State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev suggested the bizarre measure as Russia endures heavy losses in its brutal invasion of Ukraine, and with the birth rate steadily declining since the fall of the USSR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We gave the opportunity to men, leaving prison early, to fight against the terrible enemy in the Northern Military District based on the same principle of the highest atonement,&#8217; he said, referring to Ukraine in an interview with Russian outlet mk.ru.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why do we deprive women of the opportunity to atone? We don&#8217;t need women to give their lives to SVO. But we urgently need to solve the main problem of the future of the country, which&#8230; risks sliding into a demographic hole that threatens its existence. And a woman can and should not give her own life, but give a new one to her children.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The proposals would see female prisoners allowed out of jail for several weeks in order to find a sexual partner. It was not clear from the article whether the women would be expected to complete their pregnancy term in prison or not.\u00a0But should they succeed, the rest of their sentenced would be wiped with a pardon from Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Seleznev&#8217;s unprecedented proposals have drawn criticism from human rights activists in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78057571-12774901-Russian_State_Duma_Deputy_Valery_Seleznev_father_of_Roman_Selezn-a-2_1700569031122.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian State Duma Deputy Valery Seleznev, father of Roman Seleznev,\u00a0who was sentenced in 2017 to 27 years in prison for his role in a cyber assault\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78058021-12774901-Eva_Merkacheva_a_Russian_journalist_and_human_rights_activist_ca-a-4_1700569031136.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eva Merkacheva, a Russian journalist and human rights activist, called deputy Seleznev&#8217;s proposal to give birth to imprisoned women on vacation &#8216;wild&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MP, there are 45,000 female convicts potentially &#8216;able to give birth to children&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed: &#8216;The state can offer them a kind of deal in which a woman&#8217;s prison sentence time is interrupted and if she gives birth during such &#8216;leave&#8217;, the rest of the prison time is cancelled.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0Putin &#8216;will call for general mobilisation in Russia after winning 2024 presidential elections&#8217;\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78052087-12774901-image-a-3_1700569031132.jpg\" height=\"195\" width=\"274\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The highest goal and destiny of a woman is to create a family and give birth to children,&#8217; he said, adding that &#8216;we are simply obliged&#8217; to allow women to redeem themselves through childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Merkacheva, a Russian journalist and human rights activist, called deputy Seleznev&#8217;s proposal to give birth to imprisoned women on vacation &#8216;wild&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This initiative of the deputy is intended to ensure that women actually find fleeting life partners,&#8217; she said. &#8216;What else can you do on prison \u201cvacation\u201d? Quickly meet and sleep. In my opinion, this will create a lot of problems for the FSIN system and for society as a whole.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, she went on: &#8216;If the deputy misspoke and we are not talking about \u201cvacation\u201d, but about generally amnestying women who will start a family in freedom, this initiative is good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But this should not be forced, and bearing children should not be her responsibility. The state can offer women credit.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MP Sultan Khamzaev has also proposed buying children from Russian women by offering them money in exchange for a refusal to have an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Children born this way could be raised by the state, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the parliamentary committee on family, women and children Nina Ostanina called the idea immoral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Children are not puppies,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has sustained huge casualties since invading Ukraine last February. While neither side releases details of its losses, the UK government\u00a0estimated last week that 302,000 Russian military personnel had been killed or wounded so far.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers have also deserted, and many thousands of civilians fled the country in response to the war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia has an estimated population of 144.2mn in 2023. In 1991, when the USSR collapsed, its population was 148.5mn.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s population had steadily increased until that point, listed as 107.5mn in 1953, the year of Stalin&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, &#8216;some of the objective reasons for Russia&#8217;s demographic problems reflect historical dynamics: the number of women of childbearing age is falling,\u00a0and the average age at which women are having children is rising steadily in modernized, urban, well-educated populations.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The think tank also noted the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia&#8217;s &#8216;special military operation&#8217; in Ukraine have &#8216;created a backdrop of extreme uncertainty about the future&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This has predictably changed family planning: some people are deciding not to have children or to postpone starting a family or having another child until more psychologically and financially stable times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Nor does the militarization of life in Russia encourage people to add to their families, except for those who consider it their duty to supply the motherland with cannon fodder for future wars,&#8217; a 2023 report observed starkly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78057577-12774901-Valery_Seleznev_suggested_Russia_could_tackle_its_demographic_cr-a-5_1700569031139.jpg\" height=\"393\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Valery Seleznev suggested Russia could tackle its demographic crisis by offering female prisoners amnesty for having children<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78058093-12774901-Ukrainian_soldiers_walk_in_their_fighting_position_in_the_direct-a-6_1700569031140.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian soldiers walk in their fighting position in the direction of Bakhmut, Ukraine, 17 November 2023<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78058089-12774901-Ukrainian_soldiers_fire_artillery_in_the_direction_of_Bakhmut_18-a-7_1700569031145.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian soldiers fire artillery in the direction of Bakhmut, 18 November<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/21\/12\/78058103-12774901-Servicemen_of_the_68th_Separate_Jager_Infantry_Brigade_Oleksa_Do-a-8_1700569031146.jpg\" height=\"478\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Servicemen of the 68th Separate Jager Infantry Brigade &#8216;Oleksa Dovbush&#8217; move in a tank on their frontline position in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 08 November 2023<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s losses in Ukraine have been muddied by a lack of official data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Heappey, Britain&#8217;s Minister of State for the Armed Forces, said this month: &#8216;We estimate that approximately 302,000 Russian military personnel have been killed or wounded, and tens of thousands more have already deserted since the start of the conflict.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, a Ukrainian civic group said it had confirmed the deaths of 25,000 &#8211; putting the death toll to more than 30,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Kyiv treats its losses as a state secret and officials say disclosing the figure could harm its war effort.\u00a0A report in August by the New York Times, citing anonymous U.S. officials, put the Ukrainian death toll at close to 70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Valery Seleznev is a Russian politician serving as State Duma deputy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His son, Roman, 39, was detained on a US warrant while on vacation in the Maldives nine years ago.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted of hacking into servers to steal credit-card data causing more than $169 million in damages to businesses and financial institutions. 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