Russia's rise in conservative family values | Unreported World

now while the new series is on we're uploading classic unreported world episodes every Wednesday this week's takes us to Russia to meet the country's most prolific parents the government's expansionist intentions have extended into family life it seems where they reward ultra fertile parents including one family with 18 children but the darker side of the resurgence in traditional values is arise in homophobia and the removal of women's rights this episode was first aired in March when Marcel through went to find out more [Music] [Music] on the banks of the river dawn in the southeast of Russia an extraordinary service is taking place [Music] [Music] members of Russia's thousand-year-old Orthodox Church are washing away their sins with an icy swim incredible as it sounds seems like this are taking place across Russia today because this is the feast of Epiphany people are jumping into cold water everywhere but this place has a special significance this is the dawn river this is the Cossack heartland of Russia and the Cossacks are seen as the guardian of the eternal Russian values of patriotism God and family this is also the sign of an extraordinary revival for most of the last hundred years the church was persecuted by the communist government now the Orthodox Church and President Vladimir Putin our new best friends leading the service his father you've gained e o ciock one of 18 children in a family who are becoming national celebrity at the Church of the Holy Trinity in nearby rostov-on-don the oceaxe sisters form the core of the choir [Music] down below is the patriarch of the family father yarn oh she AK he and his children are a symbol of the new Russia religious conservative and deeply patriotic did you ever imagine that the Orthodox Church will have the importance it has today they see of gets shown third coat of mascara can you see each other Hadassah Wallace I would ask you Alec such assertion about the robes a fullness of abundant so you're watching blaha darien national Brazilian Rajput you know Capistrano because I was taught me how I realized no a teacher if she would encourage kids kakatiyas look more eight years dysphoria does occur so chilling a coaster in here this park we thought also be my dignity Miriam or the church looks ancient but it's barely twenty years old since President Putin came to power 25,000 new churches have been built a Marcel what is this place this place is a TV studio Wow okay the first Christian TV inner-selves of Russia it's the first Christian TV station from next door there's the sound of gunfire they're editing a new show and it's not songs of praise I'm scared to be sure that the child can protect himself his family Russian orthodoxy is not a turn the other cheek religion this military training was organized by a local priest Rostov just a hundred kilometers away from the contested border with Ukraine father Yan has invited me to meet his family in the suburbs of rostov-on-don this is where father Johan lives with his wife nadezhda I've come to meet her to find out about the reality of being the mother to 18 children [Music] Wow it's big hello nice to meet you the oceaxe have ten sons and eight daughters ranging in age from seven to thirty three and twenty five grandchildren to Nadezhda had her first child at eighteen católica yeah the quints are cool Yahoo sorry booted Nakhla bizarre Water Company Chinese he must reduce a parabola yeah I'm sorry great now what would a bottom inadequate notice Palacios advance to meet her daughters are also starting their families young they were village if a village in one village Torche courtesy they converse about Maria or champion Maria you guys a bit Madison Maria's 18 she's the oceaxe 12th child seraphim is the 13th and 13 is that an unlucky number in Russian the oceaxe are exceptional in a country where the population has been shrinking for the last 20 years their exemplary fertility has been recognized by the government with a special medal to be eligible for the order of parental glory you must have seven or more children and be morally upstanding the oceaxe tick all the boxes what did you feel when you met the President and he gave you the award a boy doesn't meet city master stochastic which is so companies that you enjoy later another you Joe because you mean their youngest seven-year-old Anastasia also has something to boast about oh that's just tooth but stop it's padushka the most striking thing about this I said how amazingly tide is looks like it's ready for a magazine shoot in this showpiece home even the teenagers bedrooms are immaculate Dania is 16 okay which onion do you want to have a big family to the LOS Conchas boilers which a mango pitcher Crystalis the airship I was lovely the semester girl ready to me a bothersome we go in search of the rest of the family and find most of them hanging out in the basement Yanis trusted hi oh sorry I'm whisked off to see the rest of the facilities okay let's look at a swimming pool Wow I'm wondering how he paid for all this on his church salary he tells me the donors include the country's richest woman the head of the National Railways and a billionaire MP all keen to associate themselves with the oceaxe Family Values father yarn is not just free to practice his religion he's well rewarded for it his family has become a shiny advert for the new values that Vladimir Putin wants to promote family god and country [Music] [Applause] there's another side to the resurgence of the Orthodox Church a wave of intolerance with homophobic views and graphic descriptions of abortion on TV when you ate it it's eluded what it that's good game go away Melanie political last night [ __ ] me meat is equity whatever what is Russian just came in selenium sambal tissues possible snake me already talk she would know what you say pollution ble hotter historisches possible with complete you ever use these materials Cordova noodles this is brand new broadcaster Tsar grad TV it's like this bizarre amalgam of Fox News and the Russian Orthodox Church but they're deadly serious about this their message is that liberal values are over and this is the future [Music] Wow this is nice I'm meeting its founder Konstantin Malafaia hi Marcel 3 nice to meet you he's a banker with vast riches huge energy and Kremlin connection is our audience is pretty young these people who grew up after millennium they're very artichokes there are conservative they're traditionalist and they believe that liberals it's sort of hippie he's got a vision for Russia back to Russia in part time when we were are two ducks when we have seven children for one family when we were proud to be Russian Konstantin malifios pride in Russia has led to him being hit with international sanctions for giving money to the rebels in Ukraine felt this was necessary an Orthodox TV channel was something you wanted to do yes of course that's their way of life but people in the West see the rise of Orthodoxy here also as a attack on gay people and attack on women's right to abortion that's something that you're very strongly critical of we are believers and in the Bible they called sodomites the Guru of the operation is this man Alexander Dugan he sees Russia and the West as opponents in a global spiritual battle one writer called him Putin's brain you believe that it's not likely that Russia and the West should come into conflict it's inevitable the West is very aggressive colonial imperialist and try to submit any other civilization under its rule we reject that exactly in the measure it attacks us but there is one aspect of the hypocritical West that has caught his fancy I really like Donald Trump Trump's America is traditional and conservative healthy and worthy of respect [Music] I'm catching the metro to an increasingly rare thing in Russia a protest outside the Russian parliament or Duma the church believes there's such a thing as reasonable and loving physical punishment within a family and once violence against spouse or child decriminalized it's minus 10 by a handful of women have braved the cold to protest outside the duma there's the second reading of the bill that would decriminalize domestic violence 10,000 russian women are estimated to die at the hands of their partners every year government is clamped down so much on protests in the last few years they've become very scarce and when protesters come here there's a law that says they have to stand 15 metres apart the new law would reduce the punishment for domestic violence from prison to a fine it's a play on the MasterCard ad it says to hit a wife at 5,000 rubles to beat up a child seven thousand rubles Family Values pricelist what the Family Values mean Bernie I'd say but the company well travel across lovely family sphere a small balloon epigraph right here a snow when they're nice helium he flower sensationally evil you see flatter thee do you think it's a lot to do with the influence of the church and on the government [Music] issei via traditional Mystere that creates Marini intervene year millennia a week later President Putin signed the bill into law as the bill was being passed I went to see Konstantin Malafaia at one of his other projects a vast new school outside Moscow I'd heard he was a supporter of the bill there's a bill in parliament right now to decriminalize domestic violence all we're for this that was us behind it well you a a lobbying group behind this of course we shall be you personally or the channel was our garage all of us this isn't it bad when someone beats their wife never loud state to interfere in your family we know exactly what would happen if state would start to interfere in the family family is sacral people like Konstantin Malafaia want a Russian Empire 2.0 great like the USSR but which doesn't meddle in its citizens lives and depart the whole family values agenda but not only should families be big but the state shouldn't intervene even when there's violence going on in the home I'm back in rostov-on-don I'm on my way to visit another big family in fact the biggest family in the entire country they show a very different side of Russia the woman I'm about to meet has been a mother to more than 70 children while the government wants upstanding Russians to have bigger families an estimated 600,000 children have parents who can't or won't take care of them the government can't persuade enough Russians to adopt and is relying on a few exceptional people like to china Sorokina she's adopted 48 children and fostered more in all she's taken in 76 Nevada water was not was it for sure at Monmouth was after for Brad Warner and labrum acoustic widgets of Cigna can you tell me how you end up adopting the children detailing gala Diwali munagi Brizard Pyrenean you idiot Isabeau Padma trustee period but padushka Pritchard you do so Mala Mala Mala Mala six year old Kostya was abandoned by his parents and left to fend for himself on the streets next to him is Collier aged five [Music] he's already been rejected by one adoptive family now to China's trying to socialize there's two ways here that's to China's way and the highway and call it and you arrive well he's only been here a couple of months so that's what she's being kind of tough with him she wants him to behave properly after supper the children let off steam in the basement they've named the sports hall [Music] living in a house however big it is there's gonna be some where you go and just go completely nice and once thousands of Russian children found homes abroad but Russia has clamped down an adoption to countries that permit gay marriage and banned adoption by Americans outright I've got a sort of wringing headache from being down in the Sports Hall with all those kids going crazy and it's incredible thing that is to China's reality 24/7 looking after so many children but it's also moving when you think that a lot of those kids came from difficult circumstances and if it weren't for her they would be leading lives that are considerably worse the next morning to Chara and family are off to the supermarket the state gives the Charter some money for the children but it barely covers food the shim not sat there [Music] I asked each other what kind of family Collier comes from mama Velma and a gullible naga DJ says DT et cetera et voila Rihanna Samia druga anime and rogue are washable Troy a geeky kirusha I had the clock away a cookie problem is hysterical Paladini applause for no reward vanish it's a mansion aired nationally part forth she tells me Collier is desperate to start kindergarten next week she said he can if he behaves in what don't but no more school star on its own I want to know if he'll make it but first it's time to say goodbye to the oceaxe I'm joining them for church they're in their Sunday best mink coats even though it's Friday today is a special service to honor father Yuans patron Saint John the Baptist five of his sons are serving alongside him with your devout or not this is an amazing spectacle it's like a piece of theater the doors keep opening and closing that air is full of the smell of incense it's got some undeniable power [Music] after the end of the Soviet Union many people thought it was only a matter of time before Russia became like the West instead the Orthodox Church and Putin's government are rejecting the West and its values as they strive to make Russia great again [Music] with an exhibition like this on a market or here whereas education femtocell storage here semester Adani pet clinic is la illaha nerado Vida strata Bouboulina colinear most Allah is wake risotto so I raddest you eat a true aficionado generally a nice opportunity I've got one last goodbye to make we've got up at the crack of dawn to go to China's house because today is a big day for Kolya thanks to to China's efforts Kolya is ready to start kindergarten [Music] maash postulate in PL v DN sudden gave us at first lady on vitamin c store really [Laughter] [Music] thanks to Tatiana's love and hard work kaalia now has a chance to be one of the citizens will shape Russia's future thanks to the rise of Russia's Church that future looks set to be conservative religious and nationalistic [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 24min 36sec (1476 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 04 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/Gfrisse1]

...where they award ultra-fertile parents, including a family with 18 children.

This is the same rationale behind some religious prohibitions of birth control and abortion. They knew it was imperative they grow their numbers internally and not rely entirely on proselytizing.

[u/Unbiased_Reviews]

Ultra Fertile ... that’s a new one.