MOSCOW - After unleashing a wave of repression to crush opposition to his war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin is moving to shape attitudes among young Russians with a programme of patriotic education in schools.
Nato had no timeframe to accept Ukraine as a member, and the government in Kyiv had no plans to host Nato bases. The intervention in schools comes as recent opinion polls by the independent Levada Centre show young Russians are less enthusiastic about the war than older groups and that they rely far less on state TV for information, preferring social media where there's a much wider range of sources and views beyond the Kremlin's control.
The Kremlin has also founded a national patriotic youth organisation reminiscent of the Communist-era Pioneers and Komsomol organisations that officials say will count 18 million schoolchildren as members. "If it lasts for 10 years, it can help to raise a generation that even if they don't enthusiastically uphold these values will at least consider them the way the world is run."The lecture on the war in Ukraine violates Russia's Constitution, which forbids propaganda in schools, an independent teachers' trade union set up by jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny said in an open letter.
After failing to take the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, early in the invasion, Russian forces are attempting to seize the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions as well as much of southern Ukraine, though the campaign has stalled in recent weeks.
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