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Russians who wed foreigners should be exiled?
June 7, 2005
Moscow - 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.
Reuters
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