The Russian government has announced that it will introduce from the next academic year a military training program in high schools, amid the invasion of Ukraine, unleashed on February 24 on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Russian Minister of Education, Sergei Kravtsov, has detailed that «the course will be available in schools starting next year» and has assured that the authorities «are preparing it», according to the Russian news agency Interfax.
«We will prepare it before January 1, then it will be tested and schools will be able to implement it starting next year,» he said, following a proposal by the Just Russia-For Truth party to introduce this type of training in the country’s educational establishments.
Military training courses in Russian schools were canceled in the early 1990s, although the debate has re-emerged in the political sphere because of the war in Ukraine, prompting the Education Ministry to open up the possibility of reintroducing them.
