The education system has become one of the main targets of the efforts of the Russian authorities to indoctrinate the population and transform the country into a new ideological project.

The education system has become one of the main targets of the Russian authorities’ efforts to indoctrinate the population and transform the country into a new ideological project. This focus reflects not entirely unfounded concerns: young people are the most resistant to the conservative and isolationist concept of Russia as a ‘besieged fortress of traditional values’.