Mayor calls on men to impregnate their wives

The head of the city of Nevinnomyssk, southern Russia, has called for a more than tenfold increase in the birth rate

Men should "sneak up" on their wives and impregnate them this very evening, the mayor of the city of Nevinnomyssk in Stavropol Region in southern Russia has insisted.

The fact that in Nevinnomyssk, which has a population of some 117,000, only around 700 children are born year