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Russian brides seeking Indian men
Maria Arbatova, a Russian feminist, has proposed this radical solution to her country's falling birth rate: importing Indian bridegrooms for Russian girls.
A writer and TV moderator, Arbatova, who married an Indian businessman a few years ago "after 25 years of keeping marrying Russians", thinks Indian men make ideal husbands.
"They are crazy about their family and children," she said in presenting her new book Tasting India in Moscow last week.
Although the Indians' proven record at making babies is next to China's, the idea to import only the Indian bridegrooms to Russia is essentially to counter the other Bhai - the Chinese. Quoted in The Hindu newspaper, Arbatova thinks Indian bridegrooms can help ward off "a Chinese demographic invasion in Russia".
She warns: "If we do not balance off the Chinese with Indians, Africans or aliens, by 2050, China will annex Russia's Siberia up to the Ural Mountains." Serious stuff!
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A writer and TV moderator, Arbatova, who married an Indian businessman a few years ago "after 25 years of keeping marrying Russians", thinks Indian men make ideal husbands.
"They are crazy about their family and children," she said in presenting her new book Tasting India in Moscow last week.
Although the Indians' proven record at making babies is next to China's, the idea to import only the Indian bridegrooms to Russia is essentially to counter the other Bhai - the Chinese. Quoted in The Hindu newspaper, Arbatova thinks Indian bridegrooms can help ward off "a Chinese demographic invasion in Russia".
She warns: "If we do not balance off the Chinese with Indians, Africans or aliens, by 2050, China will annex Russia's Siberia up to the Ural Mountains." Serious stuff!
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