Andrei Kolesnikov

Russian journalist and political commentator. A former senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he was previously the managing editor of Novaya Gazeta newspaper and served as deputy editor in chief of Izvestia and The New Times. His publications include a biography of the Russian reformer Yegor Gaidar.

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Intellectual violence

The militarization of education in Russia

Education has become another battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’.

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