Kommersant: Classroom hours on anti-Russian sanctions began to be held in schools

The Ministry of Education has sent manuals to schools for conducting class hours on anti-Russian sanctions. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the department, materials for such lessons and reports on their conduct.

Classes on the topic «Anti-Russian sanctions and their impact on the domestic economy» began to be held in schools near Moscow, Crimea, Oryol, Irkutsk and Samara regions among students in grades 5-11 as part of the «social science» course. According to the manual, at the beginning of the lesson, the teacher should quote President Vladimir Putin and say that «Russia is under unprecedented external pressure.» =»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ />Article «Our actions are self-defence.» How school teachers should justify the invasion of Ukraine — a manual

Further, the schoolchildren are explained that the reason for the anti-Russian sanctions was “a special military operation conducted by Russia in Ukraine, caused by the need to protect the population of Donbass.”

As Kommersant notes, the training manual also contains a video about the benefits of import substitution. According to the speakers from the video, since the early 2000s there has been «active advertising of foreign goods», and also «the idea of ​​the superiority of any imported products and the inability of Russian manufacturers to introduce their analogues» was introduced. After that, a voice-over talks about the increase in the share of Russian products in several industries by 2022.

At the end of the class hour, schoolchildren are asked to fill out a «feedback» questionnaire and answer the questions: «Are sanctions against Russia fair?» , “Will the sanctions lead to the strengthening of the Russian economy?”, “Who will bear the big economic losses?”, The newspaper reports.

Earlier it became known about the holding of lessons in Russian schools on the topic of the war in Ukraine. During the classes, the teachers had to retell to the students in grades 7-11 the arguments from Putin's speech about the reasons for the «special military operation» and condemn calls for anti-war actions.

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