{"id":5912,"date":"2024-02-09T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T20:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/almenda.org\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:22:46","slug":"universitetska-zmina-glazovskij-universitet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almenda.org\/en\/universitetska-zmina-glazovskij-universitet\/","title":{"rendered":"University session: the Glazov State University named after V. G. Korolenko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we are talking about the goal of the war which Russia began against Ukraine in 2014, we should always remember the fact that the problem is not only the occupation of Ukrainian territories and the increase of the areas of Russia due to this, but also eradication every Ukrainian thing, as if Ukrainians and Ukrainian culture do not exist at all. In order to destroy the Ukrainian identity in the temporary occupied territories, Russia uses different methods and instruments for achieving its goal, and in some cases these methods are hidden under quite permissible things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general, Russia are actively trying to influence children in the occupied territories using quite often the educational sphere for indoctrination of the young people. And the “University Sessions” Program is one of such instruments of influence (hereinafter called the “University Sessions”), which was implemented by Russia for schoolchildren from the temporary occupied territories of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would seem that what could be dangerous in excursion trips of children from the TOT to universities in Russia? But there are hidden meaning and such trips is primarily aimed at the Russification of Ukrainian children, but not on their recreation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, we continue series of investigations, where we are talking how Russian universities implements the program, which indoctrinates our children. These investigations are focused on demonstrating the fact that the Kremlin’s actions aimed at eradication of the Ukrainian identity of the children from the TOT and their Russification are deliberate, comprehensive and sequential. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, what is the \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d is the short-term movement of children of high school age from the temporarily occupied territories (parties of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions) to institutions of higher education of the Russian Federation in order to create conditions for the destruction of the Ukrainian identity of children through participation in cultural, educational, propaganda, militaristic and other activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrying out the \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d by the Russian Federation contradicts the international law, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, Article 49 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Article 43 of The Hague\u2013Visby Rules.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia began to carry the children for participation in the \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d already a few months after the beginning of the full-scale invasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since June 2022, the \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d have engulfed more than 20 thousand of Ukrainian children aged from 12 to 17 years old. 81 universities from 37 Russian regions were involved to this program. The \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d required significant funds and according to rough estimates more than 500 million rubles (more than 6 million dollars) were spent only in 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d were developed according to the personal mandate of the Russian president V. Putin, and subsequently they were extended and scaled by him. The Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodyozh), the Russian child and youth movement \u201cMovement of the First\u201d, and many regional ministries, departments, institutions and organizations, including the so-called governing bodies and institutions in the temporarily occupied territories are implementing this program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the plan of organisers, many activities were prepared for children from the TOT within the program such as educational lectures on the history of Russia, educational campaigns, master classes, competitions aimed at forming civil identity and patriotism. It must be admitted that patriotic orientation is a key point of all activities of the \u201cUniversity Sessions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Glazov State University named after V. G. Korolenko is one of the brightest examples of organization and carrying out the \u201cUniversity Sessions\u201d (and more), and in this article we will tell about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d: the Glazov State Engineering and Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Federal state budgetary educational institution of higher education \u201cGlazov State Engineering and Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko\u201d (hereinafter called \u201cGEPU\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong>: the Russian Federation, Udmurt Republic, Glazov, 25 Pervomayskaya Street,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established: 1939<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website: http:\/\/ggpi.org\/news.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students: 2322.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International cooperation<\/strong>: 23 concluded agreements with universities in such countries as: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Belarus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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There is an interesting fact that the GEPU always was a pedagogical institute, but in July 2023 it changed its status as the university and received an engineering profile. Such sessions are connected with the fact that the GEPU will train engineering personnel for the state corporation of the Russian Federation “Rosatom<\/a>“, which are involved in the war against Ukraine by Russia. In particular, \u201cRosatom\u201d directly participate in the occupation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station. Furthermore, this corporation invests significant funds in the development of \u201catomgrad\u201d \u2013 Glazov: only in 2024 the amount of assistance is 377 million rubles, and for more than ten years of cooperation it is more 3 billion rubles.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chancellor of the Glazov State Engineering and Pedagogical University named after V. G. Korolenko<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Chygovska-Nazarova Yanina Oleksandrivna: she was born on March 4, 1967 in Dzhankoi. She finished the school in Melitopol<\/a>. Since 2014 she has been the head of the GEPU, firstly as an acting chancellor and in 2017 she has been elected one. Also, she is a deputy of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic of Russia from the pro-government party “United Russia”<\/a> and the head of the Udmurt regional branch of the Russian society \u201cZnanie\u201d (you can read more about the society in the article of the NGO \u201cCCE \u201cAlmenda\u201d<\/a>). And “for persistent and effective work in promoting ideas and supporting educational projects of the Russian society \u201cZnanie\u201d received of thanks from the general director of the society Maxim Dreval<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The children from the TOT on the \u201cUniversity sessions\u201d in GEPU and instructions on their “correct” implementation<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For children from the TOT of Ukraine, the University sessions at GIPU have been held since 2022, and in two years, at least 400 children from the TOT of Luhansk and Donetsk regions (the so-called DPR, LPR) have visited the university:<\/p>\n\n\n\n