{"id":8972,"date":"2025-12-15T14:30:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/almenda.org\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:06:21","slug":"rosiya-posilyuye-militarizaciyu-molodi-zatverdzheno-kompleks-zaxodiv-z-patriotichnogo-vixovannya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almenda.org\/en\/rosiya-posilyuye-militarizaciyu-molodi-zatverdzheno-kompleks-zaxodiv-z-patriotichnogo-vixovannya\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Intensifies the Militarisation of Youth by Approving a Comprehensive Set of Measures on Patriotic Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

The Russian Federation is not only continuing but systematically intensifying the militarisation of children and young people. Since the full scale invasion of Ukraine, this process has become deliberate and comprehensive, with the construction of an all encompassing state system designed to prepare a new generation for war, service in security and law enforcement bodies, and unconditional loyalty to the regime. A further confirmation of this trend is the Comprehensive Set of Measures on Patriotic Education and Spiritual and Moral Upbringing of Young People in the Russian Federation through 2028, hereinafter the Comprehensive Set of Measures. This federal regulatory act not only significantly expands and strengthens mechanisms of influence on the younger generation in schools, extracurricular and educational activities, military patriotic youth organisations, and higher education institutions, but also effectively establishes a long-term course for the continuation of this policy at least until 2028.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Date of adoption and scope of application of the document<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Comprehensive Set of Measures was approved on 23 October 2025 by Order<\/a> of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 2970-r, and its application extends to all constituent entities of the Russian Federation. As Russia has illegally occupied parts of the territory of Ukraine and incorporated them into its administrative framework, this document will also be enforced on the temporarily occupied territories (TOT), namely the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, and parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Kherson Regions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Screenshot of the Order approving the Comprehensive Set of Measures, website of the Government of the RF. Source: http:\/\/government.ru\/docs\/all\/161566\/<\/a>, archived at https:\/\/archive.ph\/ebRdG<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As a result, the Comprehensive Set of Measures applies to Ukrainian children and young people in the TOT across formal and non-formal education institutions, out-of-school education settings, and children\u2019s and youth organisations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Who is responsible for the implementation of and reporting on the Comprehensive Set of Measures<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Most measures under the Comprehensive Set of Measures are implemented by several bodies, including the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs<\/strong> (Rosmolodyozh), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the Ministry of Defence, <\/strong>as well as the movements \u201cMovement of the First\u201d and \u201cYoung Army\u201d. <\/strong>Security and law-enforcement bodies are also involved, including the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and the National Guard of Russia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

By 25 February, all implementing bodies submit reports to Rosmolodyozh, which by 25 March forwards a consolidated report to the Government of the RF.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Regional authorities are also required to develop their own regional sets of measures in line with this regulatory act.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2014Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the RF.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In the photo: Sergey Kravtsov, Minister of Education of the RF, during the presentation of the new textbook \u201cMilitary History of Russia\u201d. Source:\u00a0https:\/\/tatngpi.ru\/about_the_university\/news\/8128\/<\/a>, archive\u00a0https:\/\/archive.ph\/wip\/L7Myg<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As can be seen, the implementation of the Comprehensive Set of Measures, that is the militarisation of children and young people, is driven from the top down, from the government to regional structures. The process involves both youth organisations that promote Russian ideology and federal level ministries and security and law enforcement bodies, which have effectively been assigned \u201cpatriotic education\u201d of young people as a mandatory function. This is not a collection of isolated programmes. It constitutes a centralised, all-encompassing state system that shapes a generation oriented towards loyalty to the regime, readiness to serve in the armed forces and security and law-enforcement bodies of the RF, and the acceptance of war as a societal norm.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Key directions of the Comprehensive Set of Measures: what the RF plans to implement by 2028<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Comprehensive Set of Measures defines how to systematically \u201cbring up\u201d children and young people into \u201cspiritual and moral\u201d patriots of Russia or, in other words, how to shape obedient and controllable citizens who are convenient for the Russian authorities. The document sets out who is responsible for this process, when it is to be carried out, by what instruments, and how propaganda influence on children is to be intensified. One of its stated aims is to unify the rules of militarised upbringing through the development of various instructions, guidelines, and methodological resources in this area.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Overall, the document consists of six sections: regulatory and legal framework; personnel development; improvement of the material and technical base; methodological support; monitoring and analysis of effectiveness; and all Russian programmes and projects.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Below are the key directions envisaged by this regulatory act.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One of the key components is the integration of participants and veterans of the so called \u201cspecial military operation\u201d (\u201cSMO\u201d) into the ideological and patriotic upbringing of children:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n