MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 4

MARRIAGE IN RUSSIA

NEW DIVORCE LAWS "ANNULMENT MADE EASY. Pres.! Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 21. Tho Riga correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that in five months 9,681 marriages have been registered in Soviet Russia, and that there have been 7,255 divorces as a result of the new law enabling the annulment of marriage at the desire of either party, without giving a reason. The proportion of divorces to -marriages has risen in twelve months from 26 per cent, to 75 per cent. The Soviet’s first campaign was the destruction of the religious ceremony, forcing the people to recognise the Soviet’s monopoly. They next sought, in 1925, to abolish even registration, making cohabitation tho sole form of marriage. The attempt broke down because the peasant women said it was bard enough to keep their husbands already. The proposal was temporarily withdrawn, but was again introduced and became law in 1927, with tho concession to peasant women that mar r riages and divorces might be registered if both parties agreed.—‘The Times.’