Telegraph.co.uk | 'take the afternoon off, go home and make a baby'

Russians are urged to take the afternoon off, go home and make a baby
By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow

'The governor of a Russian province gave workers an afternoon off and told them to go home and multiply in the most direct attempt yet by officials seeking to tackle the country's growing depopulation crisis.
Bureaucrats have been dreaming up ever more imaginative schemes to help reverse the trend ever since President Vladimir Putin identified Russia's demographic crisis – caused in part by soaring levels of alcoholism – as the country's biggest threat. [...]'
Telegraph.co.uk (Filed: 22/09/2006)