On the polygamy lobby in Siberia (Guardian):

Nationalists, such as the eccentric leader of the Liberal Democratic party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, claim that introducing polygamy will provide husbands for "10 million lonely women" and fill Mother Russia's cradles.

The article suggests that this idea doesn't cut ice in Moscow but in fact the idea that "half a good man is better than none at all" is current there, too.