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Moscow deputy: Legalize prostitution
November 15, 2004
Moscow - The Yaroslavl legislature will consider legalizing prostitution as a
way to increase welfare payments to young parents and bolster other social
programs.
"Talk about prostitution here is reduced to giggles, but these young women
could substantially help fill the regional budget," said Yaroslavl Deputy
Sergei Zamorayev, who proposed a bill legalizing prostitution last week.
Zamorayev said "a competent approach" to prostitution could replenish the local
budget by 10 percent, or 700 million rubles ($24.4 million), the Regnum news
agency reported.
Currently, prostitution is a finable offense, while running a brothel is an
offense punishable with jail time.
The idea of legalizing prostitution has been pushed by the liberal Union of
Right Forces party, which promised to submit a bill to the State Duma in 2002
but never did. In 1998, Saratov Governor Dmitry Ayatskov became the first
regional leader to press publicly for the legalization of prostitution and the
opening of state-run brothels.
Supporters of legalized prostitution say it not only brings in tax revenues but
also helps control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Traffic police in the Yaroslavl region city of Rybinsk are recruiting female
officers in an attempt to crack down on corruption, Izvestia reported Saturday.
Male officers often try to supplement their 4,000 ruble ($130) salaries with
bribes, but women tend to be more responsible, said Sergei Dadonov, deputy head
of the Rybinsk police's personnel department.
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