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fair elections since President Vladimir Putin came to power, officials have told The Moscow Times.In an unprecedented move, Russian
lesson, which comes six months ahead of the 2024 presidential election that will likely see Putin run for re-election, is the first such
ideology and raising our new generation
Moscow Times on condition of anonymity.On Monday, election officials led lessons at schools across the country, including in the Baltic
posters for a polling station and visited kids.kremlin.ru, a children's version of the Kremlin website.High-schoolers were taught the
News AgencyYoung Russians tend to be more involved in activism and protests than older generations, and they are much more likely to oppose
Ukraine."The point of the lesson is to foster a sense of responsibility and pride for one's country
By forming initial ideas about the electoral right, we educate a citizen who is responsible for the future of his family and his country,"
office in 2000, with the elimination of any real competition to his rule, the silencing of independent media and the installation of
engagement of children in politics
invasion of Ukraine.Sergei Kiselev / Moskva News AgencyIn 2018, when Putin was seeking a fourth term, many young people in Moscow and St
Petersburg went to rallies organized by supporters of Navalny, who was barred from appearing on the ballot.More than 1,500 people, many of
whom were young adults or even minors, were detained at protests on the day of Putin's 2018 inauguration.In December of that year the State
Duma, at the initiative of the ruling United Russia party, passed a law against the involvement of minors in unauthorized rallies and
pickets."This is being done to 'slap the hands' of politicians who are trying to use our children for their political purposes," United
Russia deputy and former VGTRK deputy chief said Yevgeny Revenko at the time.Three years later, in March 2021, Putin demanded that police
in many Russian cities were protesting Navalny's arrest.While Kremlin officials are trying to show Putin that they are educating young
people and reducing their likelihood of protesting, Gallyamov said these efforts are a simulation that cannot truly safeguard the regime."By
Russian political analyst Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva
