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Russia Orders Schools to Celebrate Chekist Day and Annexation of Ukrainian Territories
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Russian schools have been instructed to recognize “Chekist Day ,” honoring security service personnel, on December 20, according to the Moscow Times on August 28.
The directive comes from the state publishing house Prosveshcheniye, which produces government-approved textbooks, and is part of an educational calendar filled with ideologically charged events.
Among the most controversial entries is the anniversary of Russia’s so-called “reunification” with occupied Ukrainian territories on September 30, officially called “Day of the Reunification of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Luhansk People’s Republic, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson Regions with the Russian Federation.”
Other entries in the calendar emphasize pro-Kremlin narratives and historical glorification, including the 80th birthday of filmmaker and state propagandist Nikita Mikhalkov on October 21, Day of Solidarity in the Fight Against Terrorism and Day of the End of World War II (1945) on September 3, and multiple holidays highlighting Russia’s role and achievements in the Second World War, officially called “Days of Military Glory of Russia”.
Previously, it was reported that Russian schools will devote 32 classroom hours in the upcoming academic year to the state-run program “Razgovory o vazhnom” (“Talks About Important Things”), according to a curriculum released by the Ministry of Education’s Institute for the Study of Childhood, Family and Education.
