Did Milonov suggest introducing forced insemination for Russians over 24 years old?

In July 2023, the news dispersed on social networks about the next initiative of the scandalously known Russian legislator. We checked whether Vitaly Milonov said such.

A message about the proposal with which the deputy allegedly made a Russian -speaking segment of the Internet on July 18–20. The initiative was mentioned in her column observer "New newspaper»Natalia Chernova. The news went around the main social networks (Facebook, Twitter, "Classmates","VKontakte") And appeared on the blog platforms ("Zen"). A considerable number of users learned about her from Telegram - for example, through channels "Cotton swamp"(388,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Bayractar"(65 000),"B"(63,000) and"Chronicle of insanity"(34,000).

State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Vitaly Milonov He has been sitting in the lower house of the Russian parliament since 2016, but became known long before that thanks to his legislative initiatives that caused a large controversy in society. Back in 2011, as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, he He performed The author of the city law on the prohibition of propaganda of LGBT+ (in two years, a similar federal act will appear). He also proposed, for example, to ban in the Russian Federation magicians, Sorcerers And Barbie doll, equalize the rights embryo and man And make mandatory driver license For cyclists. In the current convocation of the State Duma Milonov occupies The post of deputy chairman of the Committee on Family, Women and Children, and this subject is given a lot of its activities. So, in May 2023, he He performed The initiative to exclude abortion without medical or social testimonies from the list of compulsory medical insurance services. It would seem that the news of forced insemination in the context of previous initiatives Milonov exists quite organically.

However, “verified” did not find any traces of the statement of the Russian parliamentarian in sources that deserve confidence (with the exception of "New newspaper", Which refers to anonymous tweet). Such a high -profile statement could not remain unnoticed by federal channels, large all -Russian and regional media. Moreover, the Internet does not know any statements of the deputy on the topic of insemination for all the years of his activity. If you believe the portal Blitz+, in an exclusive conversation, Milonov called the replicated news "fake but funny."

However, as often happens, the plot of the sensational news did not work out from scratch. In 2012, when Milonov was already known as a supporter of ultra -conservative views and the creator of radical legislative initiatives, many media Flayed The offer assigned to the deputy to send Russian women to the army if they did not give birth to a child under 23 years old. After It turned outThat the legislator did not say this, and Milonov, in particular, accused the politician Alexei Navalny of slander, who also believed in the authenticity of the quote and distributed it.

July 17, 2023, the day before the distribution of the statement of forced insemination, a new information farmer arose - following the meeting of the Presidium of the United Russia faction, the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko, having affected the topic of monitoring abortion close to Milonov, said:

“This is a vicious practice that first studies, a career, the formation of some material well-being. Unfortunately, when it reaches the implementation of her reproductive tasks, childbearing, a woman already loses health, and difficulties with childbearing arise, including infertility and much more. Therefore, it is precisely to explain that young age is a priority for childbearing, family formation and the formation of a life path, career, and so on, is a more correct position. ”

The fact that “the vicious practice of delayed motherhood needs to be broken”, Murashko declared several days previously, however, really strongly quoted on July 18-more than 14 million views only in Telegram, according to TGSTAT. And already at 12:57 PM In the afternoon Moscow time, the Twitter user under the nickname @sillywalksmstry published message The fact that Milonov allegedly proposes to introduce forced insemination for unmarried women over 24 years old. This tweet gained more than 500 retweets and, according to “verified”, was the first publication, which mentioned the specified application. If you believe the description of the @sillywalksmstry profile, the blogger lives in Germany. The “verified” messages with a request to comment on which source he took information about the initiative of the Russian deputy, the Twitter user did not answer. Note that with the comic advice Milonov, users turned to compose lists for compulsory insemination and several days previously.

Thus, the phrase of forced insemination was attributed to Milonov by the Twitter user. The deputy himself after his “Quote” began to spread over the network, supported Murashko’s opinion, however, as mentioned above, did not say anything on the topic of insemination.

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