The Kids Aren’t Alright: Rights Groups Warn of Mounting Pressure on Children in Russia
The group says centrally controlled textbooks and online monitoring are used to suppress dissent and record students’ views on politics, religion and social issues.
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The Kids Aren’t Alright: Rights Groups Warn of Mounting Pressure on Children in Russia
Each year on June 1, Russia marks Children’s Day, a day dedicated to protecting minors’ rights. To mark the date this year, rights advocates and researchers are drawing renewed attention to the mounting political indoctrination and criminal prosecution of children amid the Kremlin’s wartime crackdown on dissent.
Russia: Schools have turned into “factories of compliance” through state indoctrination and surveillance of children
While using schools for political propaganda is not unique to Russia, the intensity and scale of the Kremlin’s efforts to put indoctrination at the centre of the education system are systemic
The Russian authorities deprive children of the right to a quality education, using textbooks and courses saturated with propaganda, with the aim of indoctrinating students and justifying Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, while suppressing freedom of expression, independent reflection and access to information, said Amnesty International on Monday, 1 June. A new synthesis, entitled "Only Official Sources" : Indoctrination in the Russia…
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