Russians get day off to procreate, then win prizes
By The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 08/15/2007 12:42:25 AM MDT


Moscow - A Russian region of Ulyanovsk has found a novel way to fight the nation's birth-rate crisis: It has declared Sept. 12 the Day of Conception and for the third year running is giving couples time off from work to procreate.

The hope is for a brood of babies exactly nine months later on Russia's national day. Couples who "give birth to a patriot" during the June 12 festivities win money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.

Ulyanovsk, about 550 miles east of Moscow, has held similar contests since 2005. Since then, the number of competitors, and the number of babies born to them, has been on the rise.

Russia, with one-seventh of Earth's land surface, has just 141.4 million citizens, making it one of the most sparsely settled countries in the world. With a low birth rate and a high death rate, the population has been shrinking since the early 1990s.

In his state-of-the-nation address last year, President Vladimir Putin called the demographic crisis the most acute problem facing Russia and announced a broad effort to boost Russia's birth rate, including cash incentives to families that have more than one child.

Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has added an element of fun to the national campaign.

The 2007 grand prize went to Irina and Andrei Kartuzov, who received a UAZ-Patriot, a sport utility vehicle. Other contestants won video cameras, TVs, refrigerators and washing machines.



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wonder what Russia's welfare system is like?

Sorry comrade no food today but here is bottle of Vodka for the baby.

Quoted: I shall start to celebrate this holiday as well

Im in too(seperately of course)

[Borat]"it is sexy time now, yes?" [/borat]

Sweet you get this to fuck, awesome! What a country!  

(Yakov Smirnof) In Soviet Union, government fucks you. (/YS)

Quoted: That is pretty cool.  I want the day off with pay to screw my wife.   Question:  what about the guys that are not married are they just suppose to go out and impregnate someone/anyone?

No, They just go around saying "WTF?"

Quoted: That is pretty cool.  I want the day off with pay to screw my wife.   Question:  what about the guys that are not married are they just suppose to go out and impregnate someone/anyone?

You ever see some of those Russian websites

I'm just sayin......

(Yakov Smirnof) In Soviet Union, you ask for a fucking day off, they give you one. (/YS)

Quoted: www.flyingdisk.com/img/badges2.jpg "We don' need no steenking holiday! Hey Meester, wanna fuck my seester?"

Jokes on you Vladimir..I had a vasectomy!

[Vlad]your wasectomy is pooblic record, you will report to report to work[Vlad]

Half the pr0n you see on the interweb comes from Russians.

They look good young but don't carry their age well.

Quoted: They look good young but don't carry their age well.

Who cares? When they're old and faded I'll just download another young one!

Quoted: Quoted: They look good young but don't carry their age well. Who cares? When they're old and faded I'll just download another young one!

<Snort>    -gag- -gag-  dammit..

Now look what you did! There is Coke-Cola all over my freakin monitor now you smart a$$.

I cant see WHY he'd want more people in russia other than that because, despite covering 1/7 of the land of the earth, the majority of russia is desolate. there's nothing there.

"I like to fuck and I can not lie,
You other brothers might deny..."


That about sums it up...

So that's how they're going to "mount" a comeback to international prominence.

Should we write our congressman and ask for September 12th to be another "Government Fucking Holiday"???

If they would get rid of the commies,  and go capitalist,  I'd move there in a heartbeat.  out to southern siberia area somewhere.

virtually no people,  near unlimited hunting,  fishing till your sick of it.


man that would be the life.

oh and cheap too.....

Quoted: Should we write our congressman and ask for September 12th to be another "Government Fucking Holiday"???

The .gov screws us all until April 15th.

My sister used to be a teacher in Japan and she got one day a month menstral leave.  (This policy was thought up by a man.)

Quoted: Quoted: Should we write our congressman and ask for September 12th to be another "Government Fucking Holiday"??? The .gov screws us all until April 15th.

QFT
Well, even on April 15th too...