Russian women should avoid sex with foreign men during World Cup - lawmaker

By Tom Balmforth

 

FILE PHOTO: A presenter holds the official match ball for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia during an event to announce the new 2018 FIFA Fan Fest Ambassadors in Moscow, Russia November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian women should avoid sex with non-white foreign men during the soccer World Cup because they could become single mothers to mixed race children, a senior lawmaker in Moscow said on Wednesday.

 

Even when Russian women marry foreigners the relationships often end badly, said Tamara Pletnyova, head of parliament's committee for families, women and children. Women are often stranded abroad or in Russia but unable to get their children back, she said.

 

She spoke in response to a question from a radio station about the so-called "Children of the Olympics" after the Moscow Games in 1980, a time when contraception was not widely available in the country.

 

The term was used during the Soviet era to describe non-white children conceived at international events after relationships between Russian women and men from Africa, Latin America, or Asia. Many of the children faced discrimination.

 

"We must give birth to our children. These (mixed race) kids suffer and have suffered since Soviet times," Pletnyova told Govorit Moskva radio station.

 

"It's one thing if they're of the same race but quite another if they're of a different race. I'm not a nationalist, but nevertheless I know that children suffer. They are abandoned, and that's it, they stay here with mum," she said.

 

Pletnyova said she that she would like Russian citizens to get married "out of love regardless of their ethnicity".

 

Another lawmaker said foreign fans could bring viruses to the World Cup and infect Russians.

 

In comments to Govorit Moskva radio station, Alexander Sherin also said Russians should be careful in their interactions with foreigners as they might try to circulate banned substances at the tournament.

 

Thousands of soccer fans from 31 countries are travelling to the World Cup in Russia that kicks off on Thursday with an opening ceremony in the capital followed by a match between the host team and Saudi Arabia.

 

FIFA and the Russia 2018 organising committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Pletynova's remarks.

 

Pletnyova is a lawmaker for the KPRF Communist Party, a nominally opposition party that backs President Vladimir Putin's Kremlin on most key issues.

 

Russians make up the majority ethnicity in the country but there are dozens of minority groups, as well as a large labour migrant force predominantly from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

 

(Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-06-14

Surreal, but some of it is true. Children do get abandoned by sperm donors.☹️

 

For the football fans there, beware of honeytraps and bugged rooms.?

Hiv etc.

 

They should avoid all unprotected sex with strangers.

 

Just common sense.

18 minutes ago, webfact said:

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian women should avoid sex with non-white foreign men during the soccer World Cup because they could become single mothers to mixed race children, a senior lawmaker in Moscow said on Wednesday.

 

Even when Russian women marry foreigners the relationships often end badly, said Tamara Pletnyova, head of parliament's committee for families, women and children. Women are often stranded abroad or in Russia but unable to get their children back, she said.

 

There is nothing like a little racist xenophobia in the morning...

 

What can one say? It is depressing that that the quoted person is a "senior law-maker"; I would have hoped for better.

 

Reading stuff like this makes me wonder if the agents in the Matrix movies were correct and that humanity is merely a virus...

 

15 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Surreal, but some of it is true. Children do get abandoned by sperm donors.☹️

 

For the football fans there, beware of honeytraps and bugged rooms.?

Somebody should have warned Trumpy before he engaged in rumpy-pumpy and a golden shower thrown in with a Russian hooker or two. ?

1 hour ago, Justfine said:

Hiv etc.

 

They should avoid all unprotected sex with strangers.

 

Just common sense.

Best to check before posting, Russia has one of the world's largest AIDS population with one million infected, with only 300k receiving treatment. Accordingly it would be appropriate to warn football fans of the risk of contracting AIDS in Russia.

8 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Best to check before posting, Russia has one of the world's largest AIDS population with one million infected, with only 300k receiving treatment. Accordingly it would be appropriate to warn football fans of the risk of contracting AIDS in Russia.

Yet some African nations are worse.

Is it true that mixed race children face discrimination in Russia? If it is then there isn't much untrue in what the woman was saying. Don't go making babies with people you don't know is hardly bad advice.

1 minute ago, Justfine said:

Yet some African nations are worse.

Yes, but we are discussing Russia

8 minutes ago, simple1 said:

Yes, but we are discussing Russia

The story is about sleeping with foreigners.

I think this is to safeguard that the local boys will not miss out on the regular sex they have been getting now that the competition is in town...

Just hang off until the world cup is over apparently back to normal after that !

Wonderful racist comments from another low level white supremist.

 

Welcome to Russia for the World Cup of football, under the symbol of peace and unity for all ?

This "lawmaker" may be worried Russian men will suffer when the Russian women start making comparisons.

Just imagine, such conduct could produce a Russian with manners ?

1 hour ago, simple1 said:

Best to check before posting, Russia has one of the world's largest AIDS population with one million infected, with only 300k receiving treatment. Accordingly it would be appropriate to warn football fans of the risk of contracting AIDS in Russia.

Interesting that the Russian representative never said anything about that.

I was struck in my Thai condominium how utterly stunning the Russian women were as they lounged around the pool.  Alas, all either married or accompanied by very strong and healthy children.  

Unlike in the US, Russian women seem to be uniformly svelte and desirable.  Not a fat bum anywhere to be seen...

From Russia with Love...

 

2 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

From Russia with Love...

 

To Russia with Rubber

3 hours ago, Tacuisse said:

This "lawmaker" may be worried Russian men will suffer when the Russian women start making comparisons.

and there i was thinking i was the only twisted and bent one....lol

 

Why not? It'll be more exciting than the football, which is the most overrated moronic game ever conceived. 

Just say nyet!

3 hours ago, neeray said:

Interesting that the Russian representative never said anything about that.

Russia has a major intravenous drug addict population, one of the outcomes being spread of HIV.  As we know many addicts enter into prostitution, it's why I mentioned the matter.

 

5 hours ago, Justfine said:

The story is about sleeping with foreigners.

Visitors are also at risk of HIV, it's not a one way street

Race doesn't matter but being a single mother is nothing to be proud of.

46 minutes ago, Jeremy50 said:

Why not? It'll be more exciting than the football, which is the most overrated moronic game ever conceived. 

 

Well, mr Yankeedoodle, you'd better get used to it cos your Trumpland (along with your good friends Meheeco and Kanada) has just been awarded the World Cup for 2026....

No Problem...... If they want 'Russian Women'... Just come to Pattaya........ LOL ....

No mention of what the women were doing to get pregnant ...... pay for play .......

9 hours ago, Tacuisse said:

This "lawmaker" may be worried Russian men will suffer when the Russian women start making comparisons.

 

I'd like to see you comparing yourself with a Russian... You must be a guy like a bear. Wow !

10 hours ago, Justfine said:

The story is about sleeping with foreigners.

No, it's not. It's about havng sex with them.