If you're headin' to the grave, you don't blame the hearse

[eskarne]

The context: Russia has declared September 12th a public holiday - it's exactly nine months before Russia's national day, and you're meant to spend the day having unprotected sex

"Last year, President Vladimir Putin called the demographic crisis the country’s most acute problem and announced a broad effort to boost the birthrate, including cash

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[creativelies]

Hmm. Bringing more kids into a place that's broken and killing off the ones that are there already seems flawed logic. Maybe he's got a grand plan to fix everything by the time they're born.

...and that comment to Moshe Katsav is weird - one could only hope he was being sarcastic..? Doesnt sound like it from the article, though.

Boy am I glad we live here.