Russia bans lace panties

[bananas]

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]

1. The hell....

[bananas]

7. Protesters Against Lace Panties Ban Detained While Wearing Underwear On Their Heads

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/protesters-against-lace-panties-ban-detained-while-wearing-underwear-on-their-heads/494675.html

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]

10. Lace underwear ban irks Kazakh women

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/healthy-living/2014/02/17/Lace-underwear-ban-irks-Kazakh-women.html

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, Kazakhstan’s 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 nation’s 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]

2. WTF? n/t

[In_The_Wind]

3. That really is absurd.

Just my 2 cents.

[sakabatou]

4. Wut?

[azurnoir]

5. sounds sort of Republican

hope it doesn't give them any ideas

[Orsino]

37. You mean as in the moral crusades poorly disguised as safety regulations...

...that address nonexistent problems? Yeah.

[blkmusclmachine]

52. ^^This.^^

[Scuba]

6. "It irritates me ..." is the best panty-design-law quote ever.

[DallasNE]

8. I Propose That Russia Bans Shirtless Horseback Riding

It makes as much sense.

[okaawhatever]

29. No kidding, and someone needs to remind Putin that not even the Brokeback Mountain guys did that. nt

[Beacool]

59. Hear, hear!!!

I don't ever want to see again Putin's man nipples.

[Sancho]

11. Is there a tea party in Russia?

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]

12. Sounds like High School best way I know to encourage lace panties or Victoria's Secret.

[cosmicone]

13. Maybe their women tend to be more wet

than other countries requiring a higher coefficient of absorption?

[edbermac]

14. "You can have my lace panties when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!!"

A message brought to you from the NPA, the National Panties Association.

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[DeSwiss]

17. Thank you.

- Now I can't get the picture of Charlton Heston in panties out of my head!!!!!

[supernova]

47. Get your hands off my lace panties you damn dirty ape!!!! n/t

[DeSwiss]

15. You remember this artist?

- He was the one who had to run for his life after Putin and Medvedev found out about them. Maybe that has something to do with this lace-ban???



K&R

[LiberalEsto]

16. And just who is going to inspect women to look for violations?

Hmmmmm.

[awoke_in_2003]

53. I volunteer...

seriously, WTF? Is this the Onion?

[Xolodno]

18. Hmmmmmm.......

So where can I apply for a job as panty police?

[pipoman]

19. All positions are filled except the nursing home patrol. .

[EC]

20. And Putin is afraid of appearing backward

and unsophisticated? This doesn't help his image. These guys have some real hang-ups don't they?

[wandy]

21. The more thing change the more they stay the same.........

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]

32. I have to tell you that pic is somewhat relevant...

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]

36. Part of that I did not know, part of that I did..............

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]

22. But you can bet....

That putin will still be able to buy HIS silk panties
anytime he wants.

[Comrade Grumpy]

23. Now they've gone too far!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. When lace panties are outlawed ...

... no, wait, is "digitalJournal" some flavor of "Onion"?

I wonder if the Russian Border Patrol is hiring!

[joshcryer]

25. Russia wants to outdo the Onion, that is all.

[penultimate]

48. No kidding, right?

[SoapBox]

26. Like so many others...WTF??????

Seriously?

Hey Russia...Laughing stock of the World?

[durablend]

60. The sad part

We're not far behind either...

[shenmue]

27. Um, is this the Russian answer to the Onion?

What the hell is wrong with people?

[Coyotl]

28. Just order them on thw WWW

http://www.luulla.com/product/99495/sexy-underwear-sexy-lace-underwear-lace-butterfly-panties-180

[oldandhappy]

30. Hilarious!!

More rules made by men that target women. Well, maybe bad me. Do men wear lace panties??!!

[TygrBright]

31. I've just started a script for a TV drama about a Hot Panties ring.... n/t

[Harmony Blue]

33. WTF?

Russia? Not even the Soviets were this stupid.

[jmowreader]

34. The strange thing about this ban

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]

35. Is this a parody? nt

[kestrel91316]

38. Somebody please tell me this is from The Onion.

[eggplant]

39. When lace panties are outlawed, only outlaws will wear lace panties.

[randome]

56. Or they'll go commando style.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Precision and concision. That's the game.[/center][/font][hr]

[passiveporcupine]

40. As long as this applies to men's undies as well

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]

41. UGLY situation

[valerief]

42. There's something very thong with this. nt

[olddad56]

64. nice one

[rrneck]

43. I guess you know, this means war. nt

[davidthegnome]

44. Well

I'm glad the Russians are paying attention to such important matters...

[geek tragedy]

45. But men can wear lace undies, no? nt

[olddad56]

46. now they will have to inspect people's underwear to ensure compliance.

[penultimate]

49. Great law! Gooooo Russia!

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]

50. Thank god! The scourge of wet Russian crotches is finally over!

[tridim]

51. Russia's got a screw loose.

I fear what is coming.

[DebJ]

54. I never thought lace panties were intended to stay on the body long enough

to be intended to absorb moisture................

Perhaps Putin is a cross-dresser and he just CAN'T stay away from synthetic panties!

[kitt6]

55. I will say it again:

The Cold War is over "America's Stolen Land." I have the most beautiful oil painting of MARLON BRANDO on my wall.

[scallywagy]

57. What's the real strategy?

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]

58. Ahhhh, I see that the GOP didn't corner the market on the war on women.

What about thongs or, worse yet, no panties. Is the underwear police going to be sniffing ladies' panties to check for moisture?????

[Evasporque]

61. Svim Vear Evnink vear.

[pampango]

62. This ban will apply to the whole Customs Union that Vlad wants Ukraine to join.

There have been protests in Kazakhstan about this, too.

Kazakhstan: Lace underwear ban sparks protests

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024519840

[olddad56]

63. there goes my vacation in Russia, all I own are lace panties.