Russia considers law to ban defending child-free lifestyle
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Under the proposed new legislation, comments defending the decision not to have children could be fined by up to $55,000. After prohibiting LGBTQ+ activism, Russian authorities have set their sight on the feminist movement

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Openly defending one’s decision not to have children will be prosecuted in Russia. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, is preparing a bill under which authorities will impose fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.” The measure affects all areas of life — from casual conversation to films and books — and is a serious threat to the Russian feminist movement.

The crackdown on what the Kremlin calls the “childfree” movement will result in fines of up to 400,000 rubles for individuals (around $4,300), 800,000 rubles for civil servants ($8,600), and up to five million rubles ($55,580) for companies or other legal entities. Foreigners will also be deported.

There are thousands of reasons why a person may decide not to have children, but the Cabinet of ministers has asked the State Duma to make only three exceptions to the law: religious reasons, medical reasons or in the case of rape. It also alleges that there is a mass-organized childfree movement, even though the websites on this subject are little more than a curiosity; Russian newspapers cite the existence of groups on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, which barely have 5,000 members.

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  • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, but you put a quarter in their shopping carts guys! What an organized and crime free society guys.

    Their subway is super clean guys we can’t compete with freedom like that guys.

    Guys, Tucker said groceries are cheaper than America, guys. We’ve been duped into thinking life is OK guys. But also lowering prices in America is also communism guys. Russia has literally the least communist history guys, America is the real Marxist guys.

    Trust me guys, American freedom has nothing on Ruzzian freedom guys. All of the benefits with literally 0 drawbacks guys, it’s insane how little consequences there are to living in Ruzzia guys.

    There’s nothing more free than a brutally oppressive police state run by a dictator guys, it’s the secret recipe for freedom guys. Trust me bro.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    63·
    2 months ago

    - “Do you want kids?”

    - “No”

    * Gets fined *

    It’s basically making consent illegal.

  • mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    2 months ago

    Is there any comment in Russia that won’t get you fined or out of the nearest window?

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      “umm akcshually this is a good thing because the US is bad and I’m way too dense to understand that two countries can be bad at the same time and you’re fascist if you disagree with me” How about that?

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    26·
    2 months ago

    Wow, the new superpower race is on to see who can implement The Handmaid’s Tale first.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    "Listen, verbally defending your actions from criticism is just a western plot to sully the great minds in Russia…

    You’re all just paranoid westoids who are too propagandized to understand how this is a good thing."

    -Every tankie reading this article before hearing their own idiotic thoughts and going back to hexbear to have an ego-masturbating championship while being too ignorant to seize the means of their own betterment.

  • Mistic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    Some important info that is missing:

    1. Proposed legislation is far from being an actual law. It has only once passed the committee (1st stage out of 5), after which got sent to be re-written. Now it’s at pre-1st stage.

    2. So far, it has received 2 negative reviews from the administration. First one, from 2022, said it’s redundant, and second one, from 2023 that it’s… still just as redundant as it was.

    3. 2 out of 3 authors have removed their signatures since the first negative review.

    Basically, there’s little to no chance this would ever pass. Our “crazy printer” may be insane, but it only does so if there is an ass to lick.

    I could even link everything if anybody wants me to. Doubt it won’t get removed, but still.