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Russian teachers to be taught to instil "Russian identity" in children from Ukraine – Russian media

Saturday, 30 November 2024, 02:06
Russian teachers to be taught to instil Russian identity in children from Ukraine – Russian media
A Russian teacher in a classroom. Stock photo: TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet

Russian authorities have launched an online course for teachers aimed at forming a "traditional Russian identity" in children who were illegally displaced from Ukraine.

Source: Russian media outlet Verstka

Details: The outlet noted that the course programme includes nine thematic blocks, of which more than five hours are devoted to the so-called "neo-Nazism" in Ukraine. Teachers will also be taught to "identify opposition-minded children" and those who, in their opinion, may be prone to be "recruited" by foreign intelligence services.

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The course description states that teachers should "instil in the minds of children the readiness to live under the conditions of the West's hybrid war with Russia", but do so not with a "straightforward approach", but with the help of "soft influence so that a person begins to perceive your point of view as his or her own".

Quote: "A separate block of the course is devoted to working with children of Ukrainian refugees and with children studying in schools in the ‘historical territories of Russia’ [occupied cities of Ukraine – ed.]. Lecturer Alexei Lavrentiev, the head of the Movement of the First in Kherson Oblast, suggests not only providing them with psychological assistance, but also ‘re-forming their identity, or rather even returning them to their traditional Russian identity’." [The Movement of the First ("Dvizheniye Pervykh") is a youth movement in Russian created in December 2022 on the initiative of Russian leader Vladimir Putin - ed.]

Details: The outlet stressed that the re-education programme was developed by the Russian Ministry of Education. One of the methodological guides for school teachers states that children from Ukraine should acquire "socially significant skills" that Russian children have. 

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It is suggested that the reason for the resettlement from Ukraine should be explained by the "complication of geopolitical circumstances". According to the course materials, children should develop a "Russian identity" during their school years.

Background:

  • In early March, the media reported that the Russian authorities had developed a whole system of "re-education" of children abducted from Ukraine. The documents state that Russian teachers are tasked with "reorienting and establishing the Russian identity of the younger generation of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics [non-recognised state formation in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts – ed.], Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts".
  • Russian teachers are encouraged to tell deported children that their parents are dead, even if there is no specific information about this.

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