A contact of mine in an e-mail group sent this out... thought it was worth a notice, but unfortunately I can't find a source or link at the moment to verify the "news item".
I did find this link, but it appears to be from 2005...
http://www.andongkim.com/articles/2005/06/...offourwomen.htm
I do know the LDPR under Vladimir Zhirinovsky is very pro-Putin, perhaps he's considering office when Putin steps down....
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The Home Office currently issues tens of thousands of visas each year to the
foreign fiancées and wives of British men intending on settling in the UK.
It is a situation which has not gone unnoticed in Russia and has led
nationalist MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky to lend his support to a bill that would
make Russian women think twice before exchanging vows with a man outside the
country.
His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), recently drafted a draconian
marriage bill that will shortly be considered by the Duma, the Russian
Parliament.
If implemented, Russian women who dare consider marrying a foreigner can
expect to be stripped of their Russian citizenship and never allowed back
into their homeland. Their assets will be distributed among their relatives
or given to the state.
The bill has formally been proposed by LDPR MP Nikolai Kuryanovich, a member
of the parliament's powerful security committee, with the backing of
Zhirinovsky.
"Our wonderful women are the best in the world" he says. "Wherever I have
been, I have rarely seen beautiful girls, only in Russia and some other Slav
nations."
