Last Saturday, the Paris resource center Espace Libertés Reforum Space hosted a presentation of Ksenia Kirillova’s poetry collection, illustrated by Masha Moskalyova, «A Hillock on Canvas.» This is the first release of the Most.Media publishing program, the first publication experience for the 16-year-old artist, and the first in-person meeting of all participants in the creative process. At the public talk, together with Masha’s father, Alexey Moskalyov, we discussed creativity in political emigration — as well as the circumstances that led all participants in this discussion into emigration: the war in Ukraine and the repression in Russia against its opponents. We are publishing an abridged transcript of our conversation for easier reading.

#recruitment #WarinUkraine #children #DianaandIrinaLoginov #discussion #dissidents #west #MashaandAlexeyMoskalyov #prose #repressions #Parents #Russia #SergeyEfron #resistance #specialservices #poems #Emigration

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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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Society, raised on «traditional values» and contempt for difference, has grown hardened and blind, walling itself off from those who are not like everyone else with a barrier of indifference. And children with disabilities pay the highest price for this.

#state #children #disability #inclusion #personalexperience #violence #intolerance #society #Russia #USA

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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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In the last election, Robert Kennedy Jr. was one of the candidates for US president but then withdrew his candidacy, supporting Donald Trump. Even then, he established himself as an anti-vaxxer, HIV dissident, and conspiracy theorist. It is clear that, as health secretary, he is unlikely to influence America’s foreign policy. However, his unscientific theories can cause serious harm not only to the development of new drugs and vaccines but also to the use of existing ones, which will directly affect the health of Americans.

#protectingchildrenshealth #Bidenadministration #antivaccinationmovement #vaccination #vaccines #children #ChildrensHospitalofPhiladelphia #DrPaulOffit #DonaldTrump #usinstitutesofhealth #medicalmisinformation #USDepartmentofHealthandHumanServices #Nobellaureates #nuancesofpublicpolicy #coronaviruspandemic #RobertKennedyJr #Russianpropaganda #Sacramento

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