In Russia, schoolchildren have launched a flash mob - they write "Putin is a thief" on the board. A PHOTO

In Russian schools, a flash mob against the president is gaining momentum: schoolchildren and students write the words “Putin is a thief” with chalk on a blackboard or with a pen in a notebook and share photographs of the inscription on social networks, writes “Currently,«.

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It all started with an incident at school No. 20 in the village of Tayozhny in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia. There, the inscription appeared on the blackboard in class “10A” and caused a strong reaction from at least one of the teachers, Evdokia Kovaleva, who teaches history at the school. She prigosa students met with Putin’s bodyguards and stated that the class had inflicted a “deepest insult” on Putin, “for which in Soviet times there would have been execution.”

The inscription “Putin is a thief” on a chalkboard in school No. 20 in the village of Tayozhny - photo sent by the author, who wished to remain anonymous

Officials of the Ministry of Education of the Krasnoyarsk Territory studied video from Tayozhny, but did not find any grounds for removing the teacher from her position. But her speech still had consequences. After a video recording of the teacher’s reaction appeared on social networks (to date, the original photo posted in the Stalingulag group on the VKontakte social network has received almost 2 thousand likes, about 150 comments, over 50 reposts and more than 35 thousand views), schoolchildren and students from other schools began en masse to write the same words about Putin on the blackboards in classrooms and in school notebooks and publish them on social networks.

Challenge joined by:

• School №4 in the city of Gusinoozersk in Buryatia;
• school in Krasnodar;
• University named after Lobachevsky in Nizhny Novgorod;
• and other educational institutions.

A schoolboy from Komi named Dmitry, who wrote “Putin is a thief” on the chalkboard at his school, said Present Time, that he learned about the flash mob from social networks, and what forced him to take part in it was that these are “not the times of the Soviet Union.”

“My peers reacted normally, and the teacher said that everyone builds their destiny as they see fit. But he didn’t say anything against it,” the student commented on what happened in his school after the inscription appeared. According to him, there was no punishment for him, but he was still offered to erase the inscription from the board.

“Of course, I didn’t do that. On the contrary: he came out and said that we had such an action,” he said. – We don’t have particularly ardent Putin patriots; we all have mostly average views: they think that Putin doesn’t necessarily have to rule. What if someone else comes, maybe it will be better.”

When asked if he was afraid for his future, Dmitry answered:

“What should I be afraid of? I know that they can be imprisoned for extremism, but why not express your views? What is “stability”? That our economy is being plundered, that everything is bad with us?” the teenager explained his position.

Another schoolchild from Buryatia, who also wrote “Putin is a thief” on the board and shared the photo on social networks, said that “this was not intended as a challenge or flash mob”:

“My classmates ignored [the protest],” the teenager said. “They think that we are schoolchildren, minors, and this does not concern us: we do not pay taxes. There was no reaction from the teachers either. But I saw what was happening in the village of Taezhny, and decided to support the guys. We all live in small towns and see Russia from the inside: everything is not so good with us,” he explained.

The school management in the village of Taezhny refused to comment on the inscriptions, and the school teacher in Gusinoozersk told the correspondent Present Timethat on November 15 a representative of the Investigative Committee came to the school. Together with the director, they went around all the rooms, but it turned out that there was no office shown in the photo.

“Thank God, the school is not ours,” said the interlocutor following the visit.

The press service of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Buryatia told the TV channel that they are not conducting any checks on the fact that a photo with the inscription “Putin is a thief” appeared on social networks.

Alexey Linnik, a 9th grade student from Barnaul, who openly takes an oppositional position towards the current Russian authorities, believes that “school is not the place where you should make statements.”

“School is for gaining knowledge, and in order to express one’s position, there are rallies, actions, pickets, social networks,” he explained.

He also doubts that the authors of the “Putin is a thief” inscriptions are truly oppositionists:

“There are teenagers who did this out of personal hostility towards Putin, which everyone has. Everyone understands perfectly well that in the near future they will have to go to college and work, but we have nowhere to work: from the experience of older people, we know that factories are closed, people are kicked out, and this is scary. But, most likely, in this case, it was the teacher’s behavior that caused the reaction of people throughout Russia. The phrase “shoot a person if he writes something like that” is generally unacceptable for a teacher,” Linnik noted.

This is not the first conflict of pupils and teachers in Russian schools, directly or indirectly connected with the protest activity of young people and teenagers in the Russian regions.

After the “He is not Dimon to us” rallies on March 26, 2017, in schools and universities in several regions, teachers, psychologists, and directors en masse carried out explanatory conversations with pupils, why one should not believe politics Alexei Navalny and go to opposition events. Conversations resumed after the presidential elections in 2018 and the June 12 protest actions, timed to coincide with Putin's inauguration.

Pupils filmed several such lectures, after which forwarded records reporters or put them on the Internet.

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