They only scare children

Officials from regional ministries of education prohibit schoolchildren and their mentors to come to the awarding ceremony of the winners of the contest "Man in History. Russia - XX century." This was reported on the website of the "International Memorial", the organizer of the competition.

"Representatives of the ministries referred to the calls of officials from Moscow from the Ministry of Education of Russia, who in an ultimatively demanding that teachers and students have to go to Moscow to the awarding ceremony of the winners of the competition. They explained this by the fact that the" memorial "is prohibited by the organization in Russia."

At the same time, the orders were given orally and the directors of only the schools in which the winners studied were emphasized in the message. However, the list of workman was not published. "The leakage of information is apparently connected with breaking the email of the organizers," the memorial believes.

The first deputy minister of education Valentin Pereverzeva told Memorial that no ban on participating in the award ceremony from the department. "Does what happened means that the heads of regional ministries of education have become a victim of intentional misinformation, or perhaps their own reinsurance - this issue remains open," the report said.

In addition, less than two weeks before the awarding ceremony, Telegraph LLC, without explanation, broke an agreement on the rental of the hall for the ceremony, concluded and paid in December 2016. “The company's management sent a letter that says the“ impossibility of coordination ”of this event,” the memorial said. As a result, the ceremony will take place in the Theater "At the Nikitsky Gate" on April 26.

The memorial notes that over the 18 years more than 40 thousand schoolchildren from all regions of Russia took part in the competition. In addition to the Memorial, the competition was established by the Likhachev International Fund and the Union of Local History of Russia. Presidential grants stood out to support the competition repeatedly, including this year.

On April 28, members of the national liberation movement attacked the participants in the awarding ceremony of the winners of the school contest "Man in history. Russia - XX century." About 20 people in Soviet military uniforms and with St. George ribbons came to the house of cinema, shouting "Nazis!" And "National Distributions!". Children participating in the competition, as well as guests of the ceremony, were thrown into eggs. The unknown was doused with the greenhouse of the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Teachers who came to the competition were called nodists with "litter" and "liberal whores."

The police for a long time did not intervene in what was happening, but later detained one of the attackers. An administrative protocol was drawn up on the detainee under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism).

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the "ugliness" attack on Ulitskaya and other participants in the Memorial contest. “This is a hooliganism, this is a disgrace,” said Peskov. “Those who are hiding behind the St. George ribbon are discredited by the St. George ribbon, although it is unlikely that such elements can discredit it. Of course, this is absolutely unacceptable.”

The Memorial Society demanded to initiate a criminal case against those who attacked participants and guests of the ceremony. Human rights activists also demanded an official investigation against police officers who did not try to interfere with the attackers. "We do not concern the issue of consistency or inconsistency with the authorities of this public campaign at the door of the movie House. We draw your attention to another circumstance. Near the hooligans, there were police officers who did not stop their insulting antics throughout the time. They did nothing to ensure the physical security of schoolchildren and adults," the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in the name of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs In Moscow, Anatoly Yakunin.