Ukraine Update July 6
News from Russia in Brief
Putin’s Presidential Grants Foundation is focusing on brainwashing children via summer camps. A “Patriotic Orthodox Camp” in Pskov focuses on protecting teenagers from “blurring the boundaries of gender roles” and military training. Children in Luhansk will learn about the danger of landmines without learning who put them out there. In Crimea, children will celebrate ten years of “Novorossia” joining Russia and how to resist Western propaganda.
The school curriculum will have “Western” books removed and replaced with works from China and India. Information about Stalinist and Leninist repressions will also be removed, deemed “harmful” for children.
The first “Special Military Operation Museum” in Russia was flooded in Nizhny Novgorod. Exhibits include weapons, photographs, and memorials for SMO heroes. The museum is on the first floor of a residential building (the first floors are often shops, schools, etc.). The building residents complain of frequent flooding, bad electrical wiring, and non-working elevators. The museum is on the first floor! Why would they need an elevator?
Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and China are building a railroad to bypass Russia to provide access to Europe. China is providing the funding, offering debt in exchange for servitude via the One Belt, One Road initiative.
In the aftermath of the shooting in Dagestan, Dmitry Rogozin, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, said, “If…
