The Russian Federation is launching a system of incentives for educational institutions in the occupied territories for supporting the war against Ukraine
The Russian occupying power in the captured territories, in particular in Crimea, is introducing a system of so-called “incentives” for educational institutions – schools, colleges and universities that help the Russian army. Educational institutions supporting the war against Ukraine will receive rewards from the Russian government. This is reported by the Center of National Resistance, a unit of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Such institutions have actually turned into centers of propaganda and training of future mobilized people. On the initiative of Mishustin (head of the government of the Russian Federation), educational institutions that support the war against Ukraine will receive rewards. The Kremlin replaces education with militarization and education in the spirit of hatred, finally destroying the very concept of education, says the message.
The Center of National Resistance notes that the occupiers continue to import teachers from Russia for permanent work in the occupied territories.
“Russia brings batches of “teachers” from the hinterlands of the Russian Federation under contracts and payments. Their task is to brainwash Ukrainian children, because many local teachers refused to cooperate with the enemy. The new arrivals often move with their families, so their settlement changes the demography — the occupiers settle them in the housing of Ukrainians who were forced to leave, emphasizes the Central Central Bureau of Statistics.
On the occupied peninsula, the occupying power is trying to strengthen control in the field of education: it reduces the number of English lessons and introduces the subject “spiritual and moral culture” and career guidance from the fifth grade. In addition, the occupiers made it “obligatory” the use in school chat rooms of the messenger controlled by the Russian authorities “Max” and plan to introduce “behavior ratings”.
According to the experts of the Crimean Reintegration Association, this way the occupation authorities seek to strengthen control over students who may show disloyalty.
“We would like to remind you that the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 78th session, among the violations of human rights in the occupied territories of Ukraine, paid special attention to the aggressor’s encroachments on educational rights”, — stated the Association for the Reintegration of Crimea.
At the end of the last academic year, 260 cadet classes and 16 Cossack classes were operating in occupied Crimea, where a total of 6,265 children studied in programs that included elements of military training.
