Mosnews.com reports:
A young Russian farmer from the small village in Kemerovo region (South Siberia) has asked President Vladimir Putin to allow him to marry a cow, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday.
“All girls have left our small village and moved to the city, so I cannot find a woman to be with. But I see the solution to the problem. I love animals very much and want to ask you when it will be allowed in Russia, as it is in Holland, to marry domestic animals?” his question to Putin reads.
Bizarre, no? But I seem to remember scenes in Dovzhenko's Earth in which Russian peasants ritually marry their livestock to ensure fertility or something [it's been a long time since I studied Soviet cinema pre-Tarkovsky]. Maybe it's more than idiosyncratic. Maybe sex between species is a traditional element of Russian culture as, perhaps, it might someday become a part of ours.
The picture accompanying the story [and reproduced above] is by American wedding photographer Carol Curry [here] and does not reflect anything Russian. The story might be equally bogus..., but you never know. Well, do you?
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