Russian signed the European Social Charter 20 May, a fact that excited little media attention elsewhere in Europe, but in Moscow it is stirring up the public because it may force the government to offer sex education courses to young people. The Moscow Times reports that there is little such education and according to one government official not a single textbook mentions the word condom. Groups of parents are, however, protesting plans to start teaching children about sex at ages 11-12. The country has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection among young people, according to the Times.

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