Russia to introduce military training courses in high schools

Nov. 9 () –

The Russian government has announced that it will introduce a military training program in secondary schools starting next academic year, in the midst of the invasion of Ukraine, unleashed on February 24 by order 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 apply it from next year,” he said, following a proposal by the Just Russia-For Truth party to introduce this type of training in educational centers. from the country.

Military training courses in Russian schools were canceled at the beginning of the 1990s, although the debate has resurfaced in the political sphere due to the war in Ukraine, which led the Ministry of Education to open the possibility to reintroduce them.