Artek turned into a camp for Russian propaganda in Crimea

Students of the occupied Crimean University are being forced to work as counselors in a children's camp instead of teachers from Russia. The students of the institute, which deals with media communications and propaganda, are under particular pressure.

This was reported to Krym.Realii by the founder of the public organization "Free Crimea" Oleksiy Yefremov.

Students of the Crimean Federal University named after Vernadsky, established by Russia on the temporarily occupied peninsula, are being forced to work as counselors in theArtek children's camp.

According to him, each faculty of the university has been assigned a plan for the number of students who are to work in the camp for summer shifts. Particular attention is paid to the Institute of Media Communications, Media Technologies and Design. Efremov notes that Russian teachers are in no hurry to go to Crimea because of fears related to the hostilities, complicated logistics, problems with energy supply and low salaries. It was decided to fill the vacant positions of counselors at the expense of students.

In particular, the Institute of Media Communications was instructed to send 100 students. Yefremov emphasizes that this educational unit has actually turned into a propaganda center, where students are regularly given classes with the participation of "veterans of the armed conflict" and other similar events. Now, according to him, these students will impose pro-Russian narratives on children who come to Artek.

Currently, the sixth shift called "One Hundred Years on the Road of Childhood" is starting in the camp. According to the occupation authorities, 3300 schoolchildren take part in it, including 465 foreigners from 30 countries.

Also in the occupied Crimea, children in the Russian-occupied Artek camp are forced to work at least six hours a week for the needs of the army. They are assembling drones, weaving camouflage nets, making trench candles, and raising money for medicines for the military.

Meanwhile, in the children's camps in Crimea, Russian soldiers are undergoing rehabilitation under the "reset" program. While Ukrainian children are being taken out of the occupied territories, the invaders are being provided with all the conditions for recreation.

Анна Бальчінос