Russia Instructs Teachers to Spread Disinformation About Ukraine

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Students attend a physics lesson at a secondary school in Yekaterinburg, Russia, February 4, 2022. © 2022 Donat Sorokin\TASS via Getty Images This week, Russia’s Education Ministry provided schoolteachers with “information for a social studies session.” “Disinformation” would have been a more accurate title for the two-page text, which teachers are apparently meant to read out loud in their classrooms before screening a video of President Vladimir Putin. Guidance is provided in case of inquisitive kids. The approved line for Russian teachers to tell their students…

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