The Daily Telegraph reports:
'A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race.
The unnamed executive, a 22-year-old from St Petersburg, had been hoping to become only the third woman in Russia's history to bring a successful sexual harassment action against a male employer.
She alleged she had been locked out of her office after she refused to have intimate relations with her 47-year-old boss.
The judge said he threw out the case not through lack of evidence but because the employer had acted gallantly rather than criminally."
"If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children," the judge ruled.'
EDIT: This story gets more disgraceful:
'According to a recent survey, 100 per cent of female professionals said they had been subjected to sexual harassment by their bosses, 32 per cent said they had had intercourse with them at least once and another seven per cent claimed to have been raped.'
Yet only two women have won sexual harassment cases since the collapse of the Soviet Union?!!
What the hell is going on with Russia? It seems that the collapse of the USSR has changed little in the longer term, particularly since Yeltsin stepped down. And given current events, while Georgia may not be the model state, things under Putin have taken a very sinister turn indeed.
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