Bill Exiles Those Who Wed Foreigners

Monday, June 6, 2005. Issue 3181. Page 3

Russians who marry foreigners could be exiled and stripped of their citizenship under a bill being drafted by a group of State Duma deputies, an LDPR deputy said Sunday.

Bill co-author Nikolai Kuryanovich, of the Liberal-Democratic Party, conceded that the Duma was unlikely to approve the measures but insisted they were necessary.

"Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world, are going abroad. By doing this, they are wasting the most valuable thing we have -- the gene pool of our nation," Kuryanovich told Ekho Moskvy radio.

While condemning women for going abroad, he also said he did not want people bringing foreign spouses to Russia.

Newlyweds would be forced to go and live in the country where their spouses were from to protect Russia from "an invasion of alien elements," he said.

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