The Russian Guard creates an institute of political officers

in the Russian Guard will appear A military-political department - it will be engaged in the moral and political education of military personnel and employees, said the head of the department, Viktor Zolotov. By the end of 2021, the units will have deputy commanders for political work - analogues of Soviet political officers.

Zolotov announced that on March 23 he had signed an order on the creation of the Main Military-Political Directorate (GVPU). As explained by the official representative of the National Guard, Valery Gribakin, the tasks of the department will include "maintaining a high ideological mood and morale of the troops in the troops," as well as "the political education of personnel." Gribakin explained that a high moral and political spirit was necessary to strengthen discipline.

The representative of the National Guard said that the military-political department will hold events of "agitation and propaganda work", psychological classes and various "entertainment activities."

Until the end of 2021, according to Gribakin, the posts of deputy commanders of military units, units for military-political work will be introduced in the Russian Guard - they will be called "political officers".

• The desire of the leadership of the Russian Guard to train the security forces in correct political thinking is understandable - it is these employees who are used to disperse protests. By the way, the National Guard recently explained that its employees will give lectures at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University on how journalists should work at rallies. Then this practice can be extended to other educational institutions, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein, has already announced.
• The GVPU was created in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in 2018, in the same year the first political officers appeared in the Armed Forces . Their duties include , among other things, "educating military personnel in the spirit of patriotism, loyalty to military duty" and "explaining to the personnel the decisions of the President of Russia."