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Russian children could be sent on compulsory seaside holidays every three years if a law, currently being debated by Russian MPs, comes to fruition. The potential state-funded scheme would cost at least 2.5 billion pounds a year.
Russian MPs hope to improve the health of the nation’s youngest citizens by footing the bill for four to fifteen-year-olds to enjoy a beach break.
Parents will be able to count their own family vacations against the compulsory 30 days but parents who fail to send their children on the holidays would be punished.
MPs opposing the law say it, “smacks of a Soviet-style military operation”. During the Soviet era state-run holidays for children were commonplace, with millions being sent annually to Communist Party sponsored summer camps.
Read more at the Daily Mail.