When we try to understand why Russia, after the turbulent democratization of the late 1980s and early 1990s, arrived where it is now, we usually look for the answer in politics: weak institutions, the 1993 Constitution, presidential power, oil, wars, the security services, Putin. All of that matters. But with this perspective, we miss something no less, and perhaps even more, significant — institutional inertia.

#Analytics #army #archaizationofsociety #ideology #institutionalreforms #KGBoftheUSSR #management #education #aftertheUSSR #Putin #Russia #specialservices #church #school #essay

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The Italian government has approved a decree banning the wearing of burqas and niqabs in schools. Hijab remains permitted.

#burka #Italy #MinistryofEducationofItaly #niqab #teachersunions #school

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Critics accuse the creators of the documentary «Mr. Nobody vs. Putin» of exaggerating the scale of brainwashing in Russian schools for a Western audience. But researcher Dmitry Tsibiryov (project «Not the Norm») knows: in reality, the situation is now much worse than shown in the film.

#VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #children #discussion #documentaryfilm #lifeinRussia #Oscar #PavelTalankin #propaganda #family #resistance #school

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From 2019 to 2024, the share of high school graduates entering universities in Russia dropped from 86% to 60%. In most developed countries during the same period, access to higher education continued to grow — since the modern economy demands increasingly complex skills.

#future #WarinUkraine #west #education #aftertheUSSR #forecast #Russia #statistics #theuniversity #school #expertise

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Teachers are being fired, students expelled from universities, schoolchildren interrogated by the FSB, and criminal cases are being opened against their parents. Since February 2022, all this has been happening thanks to informing within educational institutions. The scale of today’s persecutions cannot be compared to Stalin-era purges: millions suffered then, while now it’s hundreds and thousands. But the logic of today’s repressions in Russia increasingly resembles that of the 1930s and 1940s in the USSR.

#Rhombus #WarinUkraine #state #childrenandparents #lifeinRussia #education #society #repressions #specialservices #theUSSR #Stalinism #school

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We, Soviet children, were incredibly lucky. We went through patriotic education with books by Vasily Bykov and Boris Vasilyev, Samuil Marshak and Lev Kvitko. And our early youth was not overshadowed by works of Vladimir Medinsky, Oleg Roy, and unknown authors included in the «List of Patriotic Works Created by Contemporary Writers and Recommended for Extracurricular Reading» published last week by the Ministry of Education.

#shaman #AgniaBarto #VladimirMedinsky #VladimirPutin #children #dictatorship #ideology #literature #MinistryofEducation #OlegGazmanov #OlegRoy #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #Russia #SergeiMikhalkov #Stalinism #school

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A hallmark of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes is a lack of taste and complete insensitivity to what happens to people. Along with a passion for regulating everything, which extends into controlling everyday life relationships. Uniformity very often turns out ugly. But here’s the problem: the state has launched a reboot of neo-totalitarianism in a modernized and diverse society.

#ValentinaMatvienko #ValentinaTereshkova #power #state #children #dictatorship #fashion #society #postmodernism #Parents #family #school

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