Essay: Russia has the 3rd highest rate of divorce in the world.

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Jesus preached in the Sermon on the Mount: “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

The Apostle Paul wrote: "Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." - 1 Corinthians: 6: 9-11

The Bible is also against sex outside of marriage (See: Bible verses against sex outside of marriage).

2023: Russia has the 3rd highest rate of divorce in the world:

In 2023, Russia's divorce rate was 31% higher than in the USA

As noted above, Russia' has the 3rd highest divorce rate in the world (See: 2023: Russia has the 3rd highest rate of divorce in the world).

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Russia's divorce rate according to this data is 31% higher.

Is Vladimir Putin a beacon of family values or a complete failure in this matter?

See also: Essay: Is Vladimir Putin a beacon of family values or a complete failure in this matter?

Vladimir Putin is a divorced man.[1] He is definitely not the world's foremost leader when it comes to family values.

Vladimir Putin is a divorced man.[2]

NPR reported in 2022: "Alina Kabaeva, 39, has been romantically linked to Putin, 69, for more than a decade and is thought to have had at least three children with him. In announcing sanctions against her on Tuesday, the Treasury Department said "Kabaeva has a close relationship to Putin" and that she was being targeted as part of an effort to "impose severe costs for those who support President Vladimir Putin's war."[3]

India's WION News reported in 2023:

The Russian gymnast Alina Kabaeva, widely believed to be President Vladimir Putin's rumoured girlfriend, revealed her idea of an "ideal man" in a recently discovered interview. A Moscow-based newspaper first reported on the affair in 2008. However, neither Putin nor Kabaeva has ever admitted to being involved with each other.

Over the years, the two have been spotted together with formal parlance of Moscow's centre of power, fueling speculations and reports of the two being romantically involved.

"Have you met your ideal man?" a young boy asked her during the audience-led interview cited by The Telegraph.

Kabaeva can be seen reacting with a pause for a few seconds. She rearranges her chair, fiddles with a pen, to finally say: "I have met him."

Another girl asked who the mystery boyfriend is.

"A man, a very good man, a great man," Kabaeva said, adding: "I love him very much."

When this public interaction took place in 2008, Vladimir Putin was married to Lyudmila Ocheretnaya. Putin and Ocheretnaya divorced in 2014.

Reflecting on infidelity, Kabaeva answered if she would ever be with a married man.

"If a man is already looking at another woman and is already talking to her then the problem in the family has already happened," she said. "In that case, there can be no good in that family."

Asked what the last gift she received from her mystery man was, Kabaeva said: "An Alaska coat, a coat with fur, very beautiful."

Earlier this week, The Project reported that Kabaeva and Putin have been living together in a luxurious palace about 250 miles north-west of Moscow...

She is also a director at a private media company backed by a Putin ally.[4]

The New Zealand Herald reported in 2023:

Vladimir Putin is reportedly furious at his secret lover’s friends for leaking news about their extravagant lifestyle.

Olympic gold-medallist Alina Kabaeva, 39, is widely believed to be the Russian President’s secret girlfriend and the mother of the pair’s children.

She was first linked romantically to Putin in 2008 when she was a pro-Kremlin MP by a newspaper that was rapidly closed down after printing the story.

But despite Putin’s efforts to keep their relationship and personal lives secret, it appears word continues to travel about their romance and the jaw-dropping luxury they enjoy behind closed doors.

Often termed the “Empress of Russia”, Kabaeva is considered to be spoiled beyond comprehension because she gave the Russian leader the male heir no girlfriend or wife before her did.

And now, an investigation by independent anti-Putin investigative team Proekt has exposed more of their royal secrets — a story an angry Putin is believed to blame on his wife’s friends, the Daily Mail reports...

“Putin said that he had 100 per cent information that the leak came from Kabaeva’s circle of friends,” the channel reported.

But despite Putin’s efforts to keep their relationship and personal lives secret, it appears word continues to travel about their romance and the jaw-dropping luxury they enjoy behind closed doors.

Often termed the “Empress of Russia”, Kabaeva is considered to be spoiled beyond comprehension because she gave the Russian leader the male heir no girlfriend or wife before her did.

And now, an investigation by independent anti-Putin investigative team Proekt has exposed more of their royal secrets — a story an angry Putin is believed to blame on his wife’s friends, the Daily Mail reports...

But what boiled his blood even further, the Daily Mail reports, was his belief that the leak came from within his treasured empress’ circle.

According to General SVR, an account on the encrypted platform Telegram, Putin said her friends “talk on every corner about everything they know and don’t know”.

Anger over the leak reportedly caused a bitter argument between Putin and Kabaeva.

The 70-year-old president famously deplored “those who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others’ lives” when he announced his divorce from wife Lyudmila in 2013, adding, “I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.”

The former Aeroflot air stewardess had two daughters with Putin, before their strained marriage ended in 2014.

In 2003, Putin’s ex-lover Svetlana Krivonogikh — a cleaner-turned-multi-millionaire — gave birth to a girl named Elizaveta. Five years later, her relationship with Putin reportedly fizzled out.

So it is believed Putin is over the moon with Kabaeva for her providing him with the son and future heir he has always wanted.

But their 15-year relationship was officially denied from the start — and nothing has changed.[5]

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Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women and stripping people naked in Ukraine is definitely not practicing family values

See also: Russian war crimes in Ukraine

The Independent indicated on August 5, 2023:

Harrowing new accounts of Ukrainians being tortured during Russia’s eight-month occupation of Kherson are “just the tip of the iceberg”, an international team investigating the alleged war crimes has warned.

The acts described by those detained in dozens of makeshift detention centres – including the use of sexual violence as a common tactic among Russian guards, and genital electrocution – are “evocative of genocide”, the team of lawyers and prosecutors said this week.

The UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Dr Alice Jill Edwards, told The Independent that similarities in the accounts of victims across several different regions of Ukraine “expose a deeper concern that torture and intimidation are a policy and strategy of the Russian state”.[6]

On April 19, 2023, the Associated Press reported:

Russia’s invading forces are deliberately using rape, torture and kidnapping to try to sow terror among civilians in Ukraine, the top prosecutor in Ukraine told U.S. lawmakers in graphic testimony Wednesday.

Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said nearly 80,000 cases of war crimes have been registered in Ukraine since the war began in February 2022.

Focusing on just one area of the country that has felt the brunt of the war, Kostin described some of the discoveries made when the Ukrainian military liberated Kherson last November. He said some 20 torture chambers were found and more than 1,000 survivors have reported an array of abuses, including the use of electric shocks, waterboarding, being forced to strip naked, and threats of mutilation and death.

Kostin said more than 60 cases of rape were documented in the Kherson region alone. In areas still controlled by Russian forces, residents, including children, are being forcefully relocated to other occupied territories or to Russia.[7]

Videos about Russian war crimes in Ukraine

Exposing Putin’s Crimes: Evidence of Russian War Crimes and Other Atrocities in Ukraine: House Foreign Affairs Committee - Republicans

Newsmax on Russian war crimes

International Criminal Court (ICC) issues arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over war crimes

Breitbart: Russian war crimes

Washington Examiner on Russia's "adoption" of Ukrainian children

Washington Times on Russia's war crimes in Ukraine

But Russia is anti-homosexuality! Sorry, that is not a high moral bar to clear! The anti-Christianity Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Xi Jinping have opposed homosexuality so this isn't a very high moral bar for China and Russia to clear

See: The anti-Christianity Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Xi Jinping have opposed homosexuality so this isn't a very high moral bar for China and Russia to clear

Question: Does Vladimir Putin's and Xi Jinping's disapproval of homosexuality give them a moral license to behave very immorally? Like is this a "get out of moral jail free card" to use a term from the popular board game Monopoly.

The anti-Christians Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Xi Jinping also have opposed homosexuality so that moral bar isn't exceedingly high - especially for societies that currently have a demographic crisis due to low fertility rates and people leaving their countries! See: Atheism and the suppression of homosexuality and Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse and Skepticism about China remaining a global power

And Xi Jinping's administration currently persecutes Christians as can readily be seen HERE.

Last time I checked Moses descended from Mount Sinai with 10 commandments and the Sermon on the Mount was big on morality too. So what we have here from Vladimir Putin/China/Russia cheerleaders is a classic case of the fallacy of exclusion. Please see the below section of this essay entitled "Let's take a closer look at Vladimir Putin, Xi Jingping and atheist-controlled mainland China when it comes to morality and wisdom".

Xi Jinping is the current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China which requires that all their members be atheists.[8] See: China and atheism and Atheism and communism

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