The best places to open a brothel
The Commons all-party group on prostitution has called for a Scandinavian-style law where selling sex would not be illegal but buying it would be. How does the world treat prostitution?
— In a survey of 100 countries by the educational charity ProCon, 50 were judged to treat prostitution as illegal, 39 as legal, with the remaining 11 making it an offence in some instances.
— Among the most liberal were Canada, where laws against brothel ownership and pimping were recently overturned by the supreme court, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand and Greece.
— The most severe criminal sanctions were found in Iran, where prostitutes face the death penalty, Iraq, Kenya and Saudi Arabia.
You and whose army?
The imbalance between the Russian and Ukrainian militaries:
| Russia | |
| Military personnel | 845,000 |
| Armoured vehicles | 27,600 |
| Warplanes | 3,000 |
| Warships | 352 |
| Ukraine | |
| Military personnel | 123,000 |
| Armoured vehicles | 6,430 |
| Warplanes | 400 |
| Warships | 25 |
Under Ukraine’s independence agreement Russia is allowed 25,000 troops in Crimea.
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