Examiners began to come to history classes in Russian universities

History classes at Russian universities in the south of the country began to be visited by inspectors from ministries that monitor the work of teachers to ensure compliance with the views of the authorities. This is reported by The Moscow Times with reference to sources in universities.

A teacher from the Krasnodar region told journalists that officials forbade them to criticize the government in any form at lectures, “including the tsar.” They were also recommended to present controversial historical facts dryly and without criticism. Another interlocutor of the publication, who works at one of Samara’s universities, reported that his historian colleague was fired from his job because of a historical article.

Earlier, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, stated that the Russian youth came under “a flurry of informational attacks” and that they needed to be supported in the form of “credible knowledge”. The head of state proposed to introduce an academic course in history and “ensure a deep, meaningful succession of generations.”

In 2022, the Ministry of Education and Science, together with a group led by the former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, began to develop a new history textbook for Russian schools and universities.

In April 2022, Minister of Education Sergey Kravtsov said that history textbooks would be supplemented “including with events related to special operations.” In August, Secretary of the General Council of “United Russia” and vice-speaker of the Soviet Fed, Andrei Turchak, announced that Russia would publish a “proper history textbook” that would include chapters on the war in Ukraine.