Governor of the region Sergey Morozov has urged bosses to allow men and women the 12th of September off work in order to try and reproduce. In past years prizes have been awarded to couples who give birth in exactly nine months from the unofficial public holiday. In the winning pair were presented with an apartment, while in the award was a Jeep.
In , during his televised State of the Nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent crisis facing Russia was its demographic crisis. The performance did not, ultimately, go ahead. US snowboarder Seth Wescott, a two-time Olympic gold-medal winner, is the latest to denounce the law signed by President Putin making it illegal to spread information about homosexuality to anyone under Wescott said he had female friends in snowboarding who he believed should not be discriminated against during the games.
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