Barnaul poet and anti-war activist Artem Sakharov spoke about the action. The action will take place from December 8 to 10 and is timed to coincide with International Human Rights Day.

The students themselves write about this on Chinese social networks, noted “Caution, News.” According to Chinese students in Russia, many of them received notices from university departments for working with foreigners. They say that students are required to leave for China by early December, around the time their study visas expire. There they need to wait for a new invitation from the university, do the documents again and return to Russia by the end of December.

Russian student groups are the largest state youth movement in Russia. It differs from the rest in that it offers seasonal paid work to its participants: at construction sites, in schools, at agricultural enterprises and more. Some students already join the movement in their first year: some are lured by stories about the best time in life, others go there for the sake of an idea.

MSK1 reported that master's student Alexey from MISIS was detained on November 27 at the Kashirskaya metro station in Moscow. A day later the student was released. According to Alexey, a policeman in the metro asked him for his documents, showed him a photo from his phone and stated that the student was wanted for evading service. Alexey spent almost a day in the assembly point and in the military registration and enlistment office without contact with his family.

The Russian Student Squads is the largest state youth movement in Russia. It differs from the others in that it offers seasonal paid work to its participants: on construction sites, in schools, at agricultural enterprises, and more. Some students join the movement as early as their freshman year: some are lured by stories about the best years of their life, some go there driven by an idea.

According to the Inkazan publication, the students were playing volleyball during physical education when one of them became ill. A young man born in 2007 suffered a cardiac arrest; they tried to resuscitate him and transferred him to the ambulance, but he died. The cause of death is being established.

44% of young people also answered that they do not watch TV at all. 33% of respondents aged 18 to 30 trust news sites, another 33% trust forums, blogs, social networks and instant messengers. 26% said there were no sources of information they trusted most.

According to the initiative group, during the collection of signatures it faced pressure from the administration and threats towards the signatories.