Russia bans lace panties
Source: Digital Journal
A regulation that was placed on the books in 2012 will be enforced this summer. The rule effectively banning lace panties will pertain to Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. All three nations belong to the same Customs Union.
The regulation does not specifically target pretty underwear, but rather targets panties based on the garment's ability to absorb moisture. The minimum approved amount of moisture absorption is 6%. Most lace underwear only absorbs about half that.
Lacey undies will no longer be available in stores after July, though trade groups in Russia are hoping to overturn the law. In Almaty, Kazak women were detained after protesting the new rule by wearing panties on their head in public.
Iryna Davydenko, who opposes the ban, said
"It irritates me the most that the authorities want to decide what I should wear. As if all other issues in the country are solved and the only outstanding issue is ladies panties."
The nations trade regulatory agency has deemed that poor moisture absorption is unhygienic.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/news/odd+news/russia-bans-lace-panties/article/371270
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)Protesters Against Lace Panties Ban Detained While Wearing Underwear On Their Heads
17 February 2014 | Issue 5311
By Christopher Brennan
Upcoming regulations restricting the diversity of Russians' underwear choices have met with resounding disapproval, including from protesters who were detained by police while wearing panties on their heads.
The production, import and sale of synthetic lace panties will be banned this summer within the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, Gazeta.ru reported.
The law, which went into effect in the Customs Union in 2012 but not yet enforced, will ban underwear that does not reach a 6 percent threshold for moisture absorption, which aims to prevent products potentially harmful to consumers. Moisture absorption in many of the most popular synthetic material mixtures for lace panties is reportedly around 3 to 3.6 percent.
Lace panties will disappear from store shelves by July 1, 2014, said Valery Koreshkov, minister for technical regulations in the Eurasian Economic Union, the planned successor to the Customs Union.
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bananas
(27,509 posts)Lace underwear ban irks Kazakh women
By Dina al-Shibeeb | Al Arabiya News
Monday, 17 February 2014
News of an upcoming ban on lace underwear by former Soviet Union countries has compelled some women in Kazakhstan to take to the street, who say that wearing the garments is a personal choice.
On Sunday, demonstrators in Almaty, Kazakhstans largest city, staged what they called a Panties for the President protest - voicing both their disapproval of the upcoming underwear ban and the dramatic devaluation of the oil-rich nations currency, which has dropped one-fifth against the dollar.
The protests resulted in three women being arrested for trying to place lace panties on a city monument.
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, who in 2010 joined the Customs Union, a Moscow-initiated trade bloc, recently announced the ban, due to take effect by summer this year, citing technical regulations as a reason for their removal, Kazakhstan-based news site BNews reported on Sunday.
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Just my 2 cents.
sakabatou
(42,189 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)hope it doesn't give them any ideas
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...that address nonexistent problems? Yeah.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)It makes as much sense.
okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)I don't ever want to see again Putin's man nipples.
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Sancho
(9,070 posts)At any rate, the logic for this regulation is full of holes....uh...I mean it doesn't hold water...hmmm...doesn't cover the issue....
gordianot
(15,249 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)than other countries requiring a higher coefficient of absorption?
edbermac
(15,949 posts)A message brought to you from the NPA, the National Panties Association.
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DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)supernova
(39,345 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)Hmmmmm.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)seriously, WTF? Is this the Onion?
Xolodno
(6,408 posts)So where can I apply for a job as panty police?
pipoman
(16,038 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)and unsophisticated? This doesn't help his image. These guys have some real hang-ups don't they?
wandy
(3,539 posts)Expect a five year plan to bring lace panties to an amount of moisture absorption of 6%.
Expect some right wing waco to think this whole thing is a good idea.
Mike Huckabee; Chicken Inspector
Sorry about that. Sense of humor on overdrive.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Back in Victorian England, they passed a law which was intended to prevent homeless women from loitering.
The law was, on the surface, aimed at discouraging prostitution, in that any woman on the streets coudl be taken to the police station, forced to undergo a vaginal exam, and if found /suspected to have vd, arrested and treated.
What the law actually did, was to allow the police to grab ANY unaccompanied woman and force her to undergo
a pelvic exam, thereby driving homeless women off the street, and making sure that "honest" women were not going out in public alone, since any women not with a man was considered to be fair game for arrest.
So of course this panty law is more about keeping women in their place.
wandy
(3,539 posts)A considerable part of our law/culture has to do with keeping people in their place.
Women, blacks, the less advantaged or in short; anything that is not like "you".
When will we ever learn.
penndragon69
(788 posts)That putin will still be able to buy HIS silk panties
anytime he wants.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)... no, wait, is "digitalJournal" some flavor of "Onion"?
I wonder if the Russian Border Patrol is hiring!
joshcryer
(62,280 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Seriously?
Hey Russia...Laughing stock of the World?
durablend
(7,466 posts)We're not far behind either...
shenmue
(38,506 posts)What the hell is wrong with people?
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)More rules made by men that target women. Well, maybe bad me. Do men wear lace panties??!!
TygrBright
(20,775 posts)Harmony Blue
(3,978 posts)Russia? Not even the Soviets were this stupid.
jmowreader
(50,571 posts)Don't lace panties just let the moisture flow right through? And that would be...well, better than having moisture trapped against your girly parts, right?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)eggplant
(3,915 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I'm down with it!
Does the law prohibit wearing them, or just the sales of them in stores? Would a cotton crotch panel suffice to make them absorbent enough to be considered "safe"?
And as mentioned above...what about those who go commando? Is that illegal?
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)rrneck
(17,671 posts)davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)I'm glad the Russians are paying attention to such important matters...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)This is by far the most forward thinking law I've ever seen. If you don't see why it's so brilliant, it's probably because you're too dumb to recognize the benefits of dictating exactly what women can wear under their clothes....or something.
*Just filling until Putin's #1 Fan can create another account here....
Kablooie
(18,645 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)I fear what is coming.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)to be intended to absorb moisture................
Perhaps Putin is a cross-dresser and he just CAN'T stay away from synthetic panties!
kitt6
(516 posts)The Cold War is over "America's Stolen Land." I have the most beautiful oil painting of MARLON BRANDO on my wall.
scallywagy
(4 posts)Taking away the desirable goods, even if they aren't domestically manufactured just suppresses the market. People don't buy more cotton undies because they can't get silk or Lycra. They just wear their old ones longer, that said one suspects the goal here is to get manufacturers to set up shop in Russia to meet demand, which is to say this isn' really about a ban on panties but an effort to bring the business of panties normally imported into a bona fide business in Russia (or at the very least propping up Russia's cotton business, to the consternation of Europeans) with whatever calculating tactics the domestic oligarchs can finagle ....
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2014/02/russian-women-protest-ban-lace-underwear
Beacool
(30,253 posts)What about thongs or, worse yet, no panties. Is the underwear police going to be sniffing ladies' panties to check for moisture?????
Evasporque
(2,133 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)There have been protests in Kazakhstan about this, too.
Kazakhstan: Lace underwear ban sparks protests
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024519840