The mayor of the Russian city of Yakutsk in Siberia, Yevgeny Grigoryev, has suggested sending homeless members of society to labor camps to prevent them from "corrupting people."
"Homeless people are a visible consequence of rising alcoholism in the population and mass joblessness among the segment of the population that could work," Grigoryev said, adding that special labor camps to treat alcoholics similar to those of the Soviet period, must be established again.
Grigoryev, a member of the ruling United Russia party, was elected to his post in March 2021.
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