Day: June 13, 2018

MP: Russian Women Should Avoid Sex with Foreign Men during World Cup

плетневаVeteran Russian MP Tamara Pletnyova (CPRF) has urged Russian women to avoid sex with foreign men during the 2018 World Cup, which kicks off tomorrow in Moscow. Photo courtesy of Life.ru

Russian Women Urged “Not to Engage in Sexual Relations” during 2018 World Cup
Fontanka.ru
June 13, 2018

Tamara Pletnyova, chair of the Russia State Duma’s Committee on Family, Women, and Children has urged Russian women not to engage in sexual relations with foreign men during the 2018 Football World Cup.

As the MP said this afternoon on radio station Moscow Speaking, inappropriate behavior on the part of Russian women would lead to the birth of children in single-parent families. Even if the foreign men married their sexual partners, it would not end well, the MP argued.

“Even if they marry the women and take them abroad, later on the women won’t know how to come back home. Women like that come to my committee for help. They cry, telling us how their husbands grabbed their children and left the country with them. I would like women in our country to marry men for love, no matter what their ethnicity, as long as they are Russian nationals who would build good families, live in harmony, have children, and raise them,” said Pletnyova.

The Duma committee chair argued many women became single mothers in the aftermath of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

“These kids have suffered since Soviet times. If the parents were from the same race, it was better than nothing, but if they were from different races, the kids had it bad. I’m not a nationalist, but nonetheless. I know the children suffer. Then they are abandoned, and that is that: they are left with their mothers,” Pletnyova said in conclusion.

Thanks to Sergey Abashin for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader

Mass Death of Herring on Sakhalin Island

piltun herringDead herring in Piltun Bay, Sakhalin Island. Photo courtesy of Sakhalin Environmental Watch

Environmentalists Report Mass Death of Herring on Sakhalin Island
Vedomosti
June 13, 2018

The NGO Sakhalin Environmental Watch reports the mass death of Pacific herring in Piltun Bay in the northeast of Sakhalin Island.

The highest concentration of dead fish has been observed at two points: along the shore from the mouth of the Khalchikov River to the mouth of an unnamed creek flowing from Lake Krivun (4,609 fish per 10 meters of shoreline), and two kilometers south of the mouth of the Sabo River (5,990 fish per 10 meters of shoreline). Environmentalists have discovered a dense concentration of dead fish in the vicinity of the mouth of the Khalchikov: the fish cover an area of 440 square meters that is approximately 30 centimeters, which amounts to roughly 93 tons.

“The death of this quantity of mixed-age fish is an abnormal event. We might have witnessed the destruction of the majority of the herring population in Piltun Bay,” the environmentalists write in their communique. “The cause of death is still unclear. We have to wait for the outcomes of lab tests.”

Sakhalin Environmental Watch is concerned the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) has not made sufficient efforts to evaluate the scale and causes of the tragedy.

Translated by the Russian Reader