Exactly in a week, a NATO summit will begin in Vilnius, which should determine a new stage in the strategy of supporting Ukraine and containing the Russian threat from the alliance. The main intrigue remains the political formula for designating the future relations of the alliance with Ukraine - the parties find themselves in a political impasse. However, perhaps an even more important question is the scale of actual assistance to Ukraine.

In one week from now, a NATO summit will begin in Vilnius, which is expected to determine a new stage in the alliance’s strategy to support Ukraine and contain the threat of Russia. There is a degree of suspense over the political formula which will define the future relationship between the alliance and Ukraine, as both sides have found themselves at a political impasse. However, perhaps an even more important question is the scale of actual assistance to Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian system of state education has been engulfed in a frenzy of militarism and patriotism. Twice as many military-patriotic events were held in May this year than in the same month last year, with ‘Novaya Gazeta Europe’ calculating a total of 1.5 million such events. The paranoid scale of this 'school brainwashing’ campaign resembles the practices of totalitarian regimes and has concrete reasons behind it.

Since the beginning of the war with Ukraine, the system of Russian public education and upbringing has been gripped by a real militaristic-patriotic frenzy: in May of this year, twice as many military-patriotic events were held as a year ago, and their total number for the year reached one and a half million, Novaya Gazeta calculated. "Europe" newspaper. The paranoid scale of the “school” brainwashing campaign is reminiscent of the practices of totalitarian regimes and has very specific reasons.