Moscow is "doubting the patriotism of Novorossiya."
22-07-2026 15:50 Politics
1in.am The Russian Ministry of Education has published a list of guaranteed books for extracurricular reading included in federal educational programs, which have a patriotic orientation. Among them are works related to the "special military operation" in Ukraine, authored by Russian writers.
It has become known to TASS that the list has "already been sent to all schools in the Russian Federation." In fact, this concerns the introduction of a new educational subject in general education schools called "mandatory reading." According to TASS, in particular, students are expected to read N. Ivanov's "Suvorov's Voivode," O. Izmailov's "Donbas is the Heart of Russia," A. Mojaev's "Beyond the Line," and V. Povolyaev's "The Way of the Nomad." The titles suggest what these works promote. The press has also reported that Russia intends to "resettle tens of thousands of people in new territories."
Against this backdrop, Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov expressed an extremely unusual thought during his authorial program. He described the "extremely difficult situation" of people living in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia and posed a rhetorical question about whether it is possible to evacuate these people and resettle them in the Far East, the Urals, and other regions of Russia.
Solovyov, meanwhile, "revealed a state secret" when he recalled that this concerns "two to three hundred thousand people," indicating that there is a demographic disaster in the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia. It is worth noting that pre-conflict Luhansk had about 400,000, and Donetsk had 915,000 residents. According to Ukrainian and reputable international organizations, since the beginning of large-scale military operations, "more than half" of the population of Donbas and the adjacent Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have left. This concerns about five million people.
How the works presented by the Russian Ministry of Education for mandatory reading depict the lives of the people of "Novorossiya" is only to be imagined. But if everything is fine there, why is Kremlin propaganda considering resettling these people in the Far East, the Urals, and the Volga region? Has the patriotism of the population of "Novorossiya" begun to be questioned in Russia?
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