11 November 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV The waves of military-patriotic hysteria raised by state propaganda have reached our schools. Education Minister Sergei Kravtsov has announced the introduction of…
3 October 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV “Children are our future.” That’s what the posters in the Soviet Union said. The Communists were counting on a long reign and…
16 April 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: The Insider The stern Russian state takes a harsh and distrustful view of children. In the minds of the authorities, children can become…
3 March 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV Today, the Russian Ministry of Education has directed that a lesson be given in all of Russia’s schools devoted to the Russian…
4 December 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky is a columnist for Novaya Gazeta, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Award for…
29 November 2021 by Nikolai Svanidze, chairperson of the Human Rights Council’s standing commission on political rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy, 29.11.2021] The statement by the…
Week-ending 4 June 2021 On 1 June 2021 a law on educational activities and cooperation with foreign academics came into force in Russia giving government authorities to power to permit…
27 March 2021 by Mikhail Fedotov, legal expert and professor Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] Any day now, the Federation Council will consider legislation passed by the State…