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Russia to require basic military training in schools in ‘evocation of the Soviet Union,’ UK says
Russian college students will begin coaching with assault rifles and hand grenades underneath new pointers from the nation’s schooling ministry, an addition to the curriculum that’s harking back to the Soviet Union, the UK Ministry of Protection mentioned Sunday.
The “Fundamentals of Life Security” course, which is able to turn into obligatory in secondary colleges this September, consists of navy drills, salutes, and weapons coaching.
A Russian navy truck drives previous an unexploded munition throughout Ukraine-Russia battle within the Russia-controlled village of Chornobaivka, Ukraine July 26, 2022.
(REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko)
The Ministry of Science and Larger Schooling additionally introduced plans final month for a “navy coaching fundamentals” program at schools.
“The initiatives spotlight the more and more mila in wartime Russia, in addition to being a (possible deliberate) evocation of the Soviet Union: related coaching was obligatory in colleges as much as 1993,” the UK Ministry of Protection mentioned.
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Russian Schooling Minister Sergey Kravtsov advised the state-run information company TASS that the curriculum would begin being examined in January forward of the complete rollout subsequent faculty yr.
Russian self-propelled artillery automobiles roll through the Victory Day navy parade in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Might 9.
(AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists in September amid heavy losses from its invasion of Ukraine.
Russian officers are additionally mulling rising the age for routine navy conscription from 27 to 30 in an effort to bolster the nation’s preventing pressure, in accordance the UK Ministry of Protection.