The Kremlin recommended that Russian officials return children from abroad

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Russian officials, up to the highest level, are recommended to return to the country of children studying abroad. And to do this without waiting for graduation, but by transferring offspring to Russian universities.

Parents of officials and deputies should also return to their homeland if the older generation of the family for some reason lives abroad without losing Russian citizenship, they said Znak.com immediately 5 interlocutors, whom the informal request from the presidential administration concerns in the most direct way.

The recommendation will affect everyone: from the staff of the administration itself and the administrations of the regions, to deputies of all levels. Even the workers of state corporations will not escape the new service. Those who wait to fulfill an unspoken request will be reminded of cases already known when the stay of the next of kin among the younger or older generation abroad became a factor complicating their further career in the public sector, said one of the interlocutors. According to one of the interlocutors, in recent months he has become aware of several such cases.

False patriotism

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Scandals of varying severity related to the fact that the children of the Russian political elite receive education abroad while their parents talk about patriotism and the “ring of enemies” from TV screens have become constant in recent years. In 2012, Alexei Navalny published information on his blog that all 3 daughters of Sergei Zheleznyak, a prominent member of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, were studying abroad. The son of Senator Elena Mizulina was educated abroad and stayed to live - however, it will not be possible to return him, he is an adult.

Far from the Fatherland, gnaws at the granite of science and the son of the former ombudsman for children’s rights, Pavel Astakhov, whose second child was born in Cannes, France. As one of the interlocutors of Znak.сom, who is close to the presidential administration, says, such a clearly visible Euro-orientation of the Astakhov family along with numerous scandals played a role in deciding on his resignation from the post of children's ombudsman.

The daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Ekaterina, grew up and was educated in the United States. Tatler magazine noted that upon returning to Russia, the girl spoke Russian with an obvious accent. The same magazine in its September 2016 issue mentions the son of the Minister of Industry Denis Manturov in the list of the most eligible bachelors in Russia. The young man received his education in Switzerland, “having studied there just enough so that his father would not incur the wrath of his superiors,” a quote from Tatler.

Expert opinion

Political analyst Vitaly Ivanov believes that the recommendation for the return of children of officials from abroad is a “long overdue and even overdue” measure.

“The education of the children of the Russian elite abroad is the subject of constant complaints and ridicule against the regime. They say that patriotism and anti-Western sentiments are cultivated centrally at the state level, and the children of officials study abroad. You cannot serve two gods, you have to choose. If such a measure is initiated and implemented, it will bring consistency and certainty, which is missing,” says Ivanov.

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